Dear Wallers,

The Big White Wall Team will be doing a full review of functionality over the coming weeks so that we can agree, with our developers, where to next. So, what do you think? What is missing? What drives you mad? What would you like to see on Big White Wall?

Reply to this TA or send me a PM. I guarantee that every single idea we get will be fully considered and debated.

Thank you. 

With best wishes,

Emily 

Aside from what I have alread sent to you, I would like to change the font colour your text on the page presents in, it is a problem of contrast. The grey, and lighter grey (like after I have read a message) is very difficult, no matter what colour I make my background colour. Just bigger would be a help.

I would like to see more of the wall itself when I choose the see the wall. I'd like to have a better mental image of the size and scale of the thing, as if it was a real wall somewhere in the world. All that pannining up nad down and across and back - I hardly know where I am! Let alone where my bricks are in relation to the whole. Can we extend it out and fill up these side area on hte screen which are currently not used?

It seems to me there is plenty of space on the personal profile area, below where friends is, to include the biographical notes as we like. Is that possible?

You know I would like bigger avatars.

More tools to play with when making bricks.

In the How To, you need to assume whoever is reading it know NOTHING! That should be the place where to find out how to do the most simpletst thing to the most complex, to solving problems one might encounter when using that Beta sysem I know nothing about - but is apparently frustrating for users.

I realised I didn't locate the button to link bricks because it is so pale when not available. And because it is small, I did not see what it was when it was made available when I just wanted to underline something. (I don't usually like to underline because underlined and italiced words are hareder for me to readz). That  is partly why it took me so long to realise what I was meant to do.

What has also been frustrating is when I have typed a longer message and finaly finish, I press post reply and am asked to log in again, and do so and I was at first stumped by the blank message box - thinking I had lost what I had typed ' until eventually I discovered I could go back a couple times, see all my typed message again and then post it.! What can we do so that when you end up typing a linger message than you may have first anticipated, that automatic log out doesn't happen?

I better leave it there, or it will happen again!

-Mebenji

Some of these have already been mentioned I think but, in no particulatr order;

1. When the login times out, any input should be stored, okay, once you know about it you can work around it but to a new user inputting possibly a very emotional post, it could be very off-putting to see it all disapperar.

2. The length of time you remain logged in for should be configurable by the user, either as a fixed environment value in their profile or at login time.

3. It should be possible for a user to edit or delete posts they have made without needing to ask the admin team to do it.

4. It should be possible to select multiple items to delete when tidying PMs

5. It should be possible to PM a group of people

6. If large posts are created outside of the TA input screen and then copied and pasted in, the formatting should be retained. Currently fonts and format effectors are mostly ingnored or worse, corrupted.

7. If viewing items you have sent, the 'back' icon should take you back to the Sent list, instead of which by default 'back' always goes to the inbox.

A big thank you to everyone who has replied and to all of you that have PMed me.  The process continues, so if you do think of anything else, please do let us know.

Best wishes,

Emily