Features/Requests-Abstract

Language List

1. Exact match

1. Separate line to be unselectable

1. Gap to be smaller between separate line and items

1. Tooltip to be functional on whole item

1. Tooltip to be better-looking

1. Line break between autos and alters on elsewhere

1. No unnecessary alters in parenthesis

1. Maybe no need of parenthesis

1. Before typing, "can teach" and "want to learn" languages appear.

Requests by users

1. Request by Sasha

Lessons

1. Link to index

1. "In progress" indicator

1. List of categories

culture

1. Special for "Culture"

lesson topics

1. Update Mediawiki

1. Pictures of territories

Locations

1. Changes to countries, subdivisions, cities

Errors

1. Should select only cities instead of provinces

Flags

1. http://www.icondrawer.com/flag-icons.php

Chat

Text/Video Chat

• Still activated after log out

Translation Team

• Links to original sentences
• Before and after clicking on "Search item"
• Chinese name
• Only the first page of results of "search item" avaliable
• "Offer a Home"
• Courses for translation team
• English to English correction
• Ultimate translation team
• Edit 1000 votes translation
• Self-called "Polyglot"
• "Type language name" and "Type languge name in English"
• Long list making a large blank in the page.
• Link to be placed inside the whole frame
• Texts partially covered by the frame
• New Google translate icon

Forum

• To be shown on top menu

Videos

1. "Beginner" becomes "basic"
2. "Back" and "next" buttons to be moved
3. Bug of sort by creation date
4. Video url differences
5. No need to choose a website
6. Bugs of Dailymotion and Vimeo.
7. Facebook videos invalid

friends

1. In user’s profiles, there is an “Add friend” button, which is better to be shown as text “You are already friends!” if so. Vincent: yes, you are right.
2. And list of friends in profile should be placed under the main content, in case there are a lot of friends and it makes a large blank in the page.
3. In “My Friends”, order of the list should be last logged in. Users should be marked “inactive” if not log in for 30 days, so it will be easy to know by others. Vincent: yes, ok. GrimPixel: And there can be a function to hide them.
4. The two icons indicating user's gender are difficult to distinguish. Vincent: OK

Find friends

1. There can be a button "reverse", to reverse the condition, to find the ones with same "learning languages" and "teaching languages".Vincent: ok, yes why not
2. Vincent: many people want only native speakers. so the checkbox must be [ ] Only natives? if it is checked, only natives will appear, else natives and non natives, any levels
3. GrimPixel: "delete" button should be placed after each item. Vincent: Yes

Chat softwares

1. And, “software” is an uncountable noun.

social media
Facebook / Messenger
YouTube
WhatsApp
WeChat
QQ / Qzone
Instagram
Tumblr
Twitter
Sina Weibo
Baidu Tieba
Skype
Viber
Snapchat
LINE
Pinterest
YY
LinkedIn
Telegram
VKontakte
BBM
KakaoTalk
Other

login

1. GrimPixel: No automatic login.Vincent: Ok, now I understand that you check the box and the next time you reach the page, there's no automatic login. I'll check

1. GrimPixel: "Log in" and "Register now" can be placed together at the center of the page.

register

1. GrimPixel: I think that means no blank option and it generates the default option according to IP address. Vincent: yes that's it.
2. Security check seems to be still unavaliable in China. Italki has a solution of providing a special one for Chinese. Vincent: ok i'll check

GrimPixel: I think it's better to have those steps integrated to one step.

Top menu

• It can be icons and when the cursor moves there, a tooltip appears and show the name.

Polls

GrimPixel: There can be a section where people can ask their questions and let other people select answers.

Events

GrimPixel: Some events doesn't show THEREAR E {1} PLACES LEFT!, such as https://polyglotclub.com/france/ile-de-france/paris/event/1627#blank.

GrimPixel: Some pages have insecure pictures.

GrimPixel: There should be a number of remaining places of an event near the "join" button.

Tags

There will be tags for each wiki lesson and quiz, including language names, country names, people names, and some other.

Misc.

• In Corrections and Videos, after selecting a language, there is also a “select a language” in the new page. So there is no need to select the language at first.
• Threads of Videos, Forum, etc. are in chronological order of last updates, so there should be the dates of last update instead of dates of being created.
• In Corrections and Questions, words below “Please respect our submission rules”, “How to ask a good question” are too small. It can be not comfortable for old people.
• There are so many explanations written capitalized, but as far as I know, some people are not accustomed to this if their mother tongues are not in Latin Script.
• Some texts in translated pages are not suitable for the common format, such as "remember me" has covered a big part of "login" in Japanese.
• One language should not be selected more than once in "language you want to learn", "language you can teach" and Find Friends. GrimPixel: You have noticed that.
• When changing photo, the preview on the uppe-left corner hinders dragging from there. Vincent: OK
• GrimPixel: There is no link to https://polyglotclub.com/language/ on index page. Vincent: do you think it's useful? I did not put that link because there was already a link to corrections, questions, videos GrimPixel: It's just similar with the index. It doesn't have so many functions, and languages are not the users' learning or teaching ones. It can be considered as the prototype of current index. I think there is no use of it now.
• GrimPixel: Do you consider broadcasting live events in Paris on Twitch or Youtube? Vincent: Event is a big function of the site but they are actually really working in Paris and Aix, where I live. So a big improvement must be done and promotion too... so I really have to look into that.
• GrimPixel: Are there good ways to improve page loading speed? It needs to be done according to Alexa. Vincent: yes, Google analytics tells me also the loading time has increased. It something I must work on. There are many ways to improve loading spead. We've recently changed our database engine (from MySql to MarianaDb), I think that's why, parameters must be changed.
• GrimPixel: Do you consider achievements? This thing has been proved to be attractive in video games. Duolingo has applied it. Vincent: I haven't thought of it. Please write example. GrimPixel: Such as badges for event hosts, then people will trust them, and the hosts will be more active.
• GrimPixel: After submitting profile update, there should be a message to tell if it is successful or not. Vincent: Yes
• GrimPixel: I think there can be more than one native language, because I have met some this kind of people on Discord. And I have seen on HiNative that natives may be not good at teaching, so "native" doesn't mean 5 stars of "language you can teach".
• GrimPixel: After clicking on the mail icon on the top bar, it should display the mails right away, not after clicking on another mail icon.
• GrimPixel: When clicking a user's avatar, there should not be a scroll bar when viewing information, that is to say, make that little window larger.