Some users have been copying and pasting email addresses directly from sites like gmail which include the person's name as part of the line of text (e.g. Cameron Conrad <"cameron@mykidzport.com">).

While I understand this is bad form, the system however does not produce any type of error message to alert the invitor to correct the address, but rather it simply accepts it, says the invites were sent, and the user has no idea the invites were never sent/received to the real address. It needs to produce an error message to function correctly.

Currently, our community has a button that allows someone to send a message to someone they do not know on their profile: "leave a message"

This works great for our community, except for the fact that no one can reply to the message that was sent. 

It would be great if people could reply to these messages, and other messages they get (for instance from invites).

Offers a good way for informal communication between people, without creating the burden of being their "friend"

Members have been saying that when they answer messages from their Inbox, it does not show that the message was sent. Some sort of indication that the message has been sent would be a huge help.

thanks!

(I may have submitted this for the general community. Not sure. There are other areas where this should be present, too.)

It would be very helpful if there were logic built into discussions (and profile comments, message board descriptions, etc.) to account for URLs and email addresses and automatically render them as <a href> and "mailto:" hyperlinks, the former with a "_target=blank" prompt built in, too.

e.g. http://connect.diabetes.org/discussions/recently-diagnosed/2011/02/18/just-learned-i-am-prediabetic?tr=96977#tr__96977

I think this would be an awesome widget to include on Discussions within each message board. Would give a more user-generated way of creating sticky topics, in a way.

We'd talked about this in the Beta Discussions group, but the link to that thread is broken now since it's ended.

Our community members are really craving some better search functionality. Specifying name, post title, date posted, etc. It would also be great to search within a specific timeframe.

Would be very nice to have the topics to which a user is subscribed listed "newest to oldest" rather than "oldest to newest", as this will be constantly updated with new topics for active users.

...or at least give users the option of which to use.

Submitting here b/c I'm not sure if it's a bug or not. I thought we were to have a small pop-up of sorts on mouseover that showed a link to the user's profile and private messaging rather than a click. Did this get changed?

Also, it would make much more sense to have the text "View (username's) profile" rather than just "View (username)".

We here at ADA think that having a button that says "Report" in printed text rather than the yellow ! icon would be more easily recognizable as a "report abuse" button.

Would be very nice to have it, rather than just the text. Will decrease the steps required by moderators to take action.

I understand having an original post in Discussions be shorter on subsequent pages, but I don't understand why signatures are not included on an original post at all. Isn't that remedied by the "Show more" feature you've enabled?

It makes great sense to me for users to know who is writing a post, aside from just seeing a picture and username. More so in the original post than in replies, even. It's awkward that a user's sig would appear in replies and not in his/her original post. Most regular users in our community are in agreement about this and have complained to me.

A few communities have echoed this need, so I thought I would publish it here for everyone to see and comment.  The request is that when a user logs in they can see all new posts since their last visit.  Feel free to comment to lend support to this idea or pose an alternate idea.

I don't like that people leave our site when following a link in a user's post. I add the code to the source for my posts, but I can't expect users to do that,.

Thanks, V