Questions tagged [community]
Generally refers to a group of people interacting with one another through some service, eg. a website or forums
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What are some design communities that I can share my articles with?
I started writing some stories on Medium and I wanted to share my work with the world, and people who are interested in design. Where do I find communities that would welcome this without me feeling ...
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UX/UI Design College Club [closed]
As the title says, I'm starting a college club based on UI/UX Design. Since the college is based on informatics, programming and web development, Web Design is very very related to this, although ...
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When should things only be upvote-able?
Say I have a community-driven Web site with items that can be ranked by the users. When designing the ranking system, when should I allow (or disallow) being able downvote items?
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Should website users be able to delete their content?
As the title suggests, my question is: Should website users be able to delete their content?
What are the pros and cons of giving the users the option to delete their own comments and content (for ...
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What would a solution in surfacing good chat messages from Video Live Chats look like?
Good messages create conversation, and good conversations are a source of knowledge for the whole community.
Knowing that, why isn't any of the big social platforms allowing for live chat message ...
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Navigation or Meta Navigation [duplicate]
I am redesigning the core navigation of a brand site.
We are now including a "Community" section. This will be hosted in a subdomain like "community.brandname.com".
It's an important section and ...
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Comments instead of reviews for PDV details page in ecommerce
Getting reviews for products that go out of stock quickly has always been an issue in ecommerce.
I'm curious if we allow comments rather than reviews, how would users use the feature? would there be ...
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What are the most efficient user interactions needed on a community forum?
When participating in a user community, like StackExchange or Reddit (or any other forum/bulletin board), what are the useful essentials that make it a good experience for you?
I'm trying to whittle ...
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Displaying donation list (showing appreciation for people who donated)
Me and my girlfriend thought about making a kind of "activistic" website, a platform that tries to improve life of regular people and improve services being provided by various kind of businesses.
We ...
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Whay are senior UX leaders/gurus like Don Norman and Alan Cooper not on this community? [closed]
I understand that this might not be the right question to ask here - but I can't help but think that when mentors like Don Norman and Alan Cooper are regular on platforms like Linkedin and Twitter, ...
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What are the latest Concepts in Forum/Conversation UX Designs? [closed]
We're researching the latest paradigms on 'conversation' (topic/thread/comment) UX designs that advance considerably from the 'old' forum models. IOW, what are some recent UI patterns for ...
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Challenge friends in online games with out Facebook sign in
I'm currently working on a project, an SAT online game, and I'm stuck because I can't find clear way to show the user that we can challenge friends that aren't yet sign in the game, by sending them a ...
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Keeping comments positive
I've got a musician for a client. We're trying new stuff to increase interaction with the audience during and after the show.
She would love to get more in touch with her audience after the shows and ...
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Why to go with and when to use the "friend" or "follow" strategy?
I've constructed an iPhone-app where the users can "friend" each other and it works fine.
The reason that I started this thread is to discuss whenever its a better/more modern approach to let users ...
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Closed vs Open user community
I am working a blog like site (with a specific niche) where users can come and makes posts. I have been thinking about whether to make the site open, closed or semi-closed. Here are my thoughts:
In ...
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Design and development team experience with community/user driven feedback platforms
In reviewing the benefit of transitioning to a user/community driven product design and development process, the availability of platforms such as GetSatisfaction and UserVoice (plus other similar ...
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How to present reply chains on a mobile/condensed interface? [duplicate]
Take a website such as reddit where users can reply to a post, and then users can reply to that reply, etc.
I'm building a mobile application that deals with a similar situation with nested replies. ...
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How does the YouTube 2014 voting system work? [closed]
As of this post, YouTube users on the site to upvote/downvote comments below videos. What confuses me is that the # of upvotes are visible while downvotes aren't ever visible. What advantage does it ...
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Does a country specific top level domain (TLD) affect perception of a (non-US) community site?
Note: This is similar, but unrelated, to this question, which asks about using a non-US TLD for a US site.
Do country specific TLDs influence users' perception of the relevance of content on a site?
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.COM vs .ORG Preferred for Conversions? | Product that is very community oriented
Our company offers a CMS software package much like WordPress. We allow users to register a subdomain (yourdomain.example.com) for free. This is not entirely non-profit, as we offer the choice to ...
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Scaling up team sizes to crowds
The UX industry is still growing and finding its feet, but by now we have a pretty decent set of standards and practices that most people agree on. One of these is team size. I think almost everybody ...
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UX reasons for come countries not using SI units? [closed]
SI : International System of Units (meters, kilograms, etc.). Most countries use SI units, except USA and a few more.
What are the UX reasons behind countries not switching to SI units even though ...
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Why would one limit username format?
Many websites when ask you to create a new "username", will limit you in some way, most often like "username should only contain letters and underscores" or something alike.
This results in inability ...
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How do you test the credibility of a community advice site?
I am looking for standardised techniques or question sets that can be used to test the value, credibility or trustworthiness of a community advice site.
In particular, I'm interested in testing ...
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What are some good ways to ban people?
I'd like to implement several types of ban of my website, not just the "classical one" (i.e. being unable to log in). My website is a Q&A one, if this can help.
Some time ago, I read an article ...
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Should offensive/vulgar usernames be banned?
I'm making a new site, where there will be a lot of public comments hopefully, and this thought crossed my mind. Is it right to ban usernames with swears in them? Do people even create usernames like ...
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Stopping people abusing star rating systems
I want to implement a 5 star rating system for particular articles on my site. But, I know that with a little bit of scripting, it can be easy for hackers to abuse these systems. However, I want it to ...
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How does individual vs pluralistic language affect community?
Pluralistic
Imagine our goal is creation of a community environment (perhaps such as UX.stackexchange).
Through our word choices, we can choose individual or pluralistic expressions - and the words we ...
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Is the StackExchange model a good one for avoiding duplicate questions on community Q&A sites
Is there any data to support the strategy of suggesting similar questions on community sites involving user-generated questions and answers?
The only example of this strategy I know of is (was?*) on ...
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Is a private messaging system really necessary?
I have a very old private messaging system that either needs to be redone or removed. It currently accounts for about 20% of the activity on the site.
We already have a system in place for @...
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Show the current votes before or after voting?
When votes are shown before someone votes, there seems to be crowd mentality that results in the post with the most votes (usually the first answer) getting disproportionally more votes - even when ...
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How to enhance user profile information (add a user nickname) after the fact?
One of the websites I administer has had an active user registration and log in for a long time, which was mostly used to confirm users and send merchandise. So far, there has been no user to user ...
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Is it a good idea to enforce a minimum comment length?
In a social application focusing on a niche community where the level of comment quality matters, is it a good idea to enforce a minimum comment length?
For example, see this set of comments on a ...
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Alternatives to underlining an email address to signify MS Outlook "Check Names" feature
MS Outlook has a feature called Check Names that converts an email address to a full name, underlines it, and makes it uneditable (aside from deleting the resolved name).
Some of my font enthusiasts ...
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Embedding options in a forum
I'm developing a forum/community site and I was thinking how much embedding options should I give to the users. Until now, it is possible upload images and the URLs in the posts are parsed and ...
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What makes users register?
First off - I want users to register on my site. It's a site for image sharing, sort of like imgur.com. But what makes a user on a website register? I have people coming back to my site but they never ...
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Best way to tell a user that another one blocked him/her?
In the context of a social networking service, community or forum, what's the best to tell a user that he/she has been blocked by another person? If a message is displayed that says X has blocked you ...
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Maximum amount of people in a single chat room
Ok, is there a number, an ideal or a maximum amount of people that can participate in a single real-time conversation? Something similar to the Dunbar's number.
I'm asking this because I'm developing ...
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How do social communities sort users to display / encourage uploading profile pictures?
For a relatively new social networking community, not many users have uploaded their profile pictures yet. We think having an image will cultivate a sense of trust and encourage participation, so we ...
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What could be a single term (for use in a website) to refer to a community that encompasses students groups, academic institutes & recruiters?
I need a simple term that I could use in website's main navigation bar to refer to community encompassing academic groups, academic institutes & recruiters.
The target page is supposed to contain ...
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What motivates people to keep on sharing ideas, develop new concepts and innovate on online innovation communities? [closed]
I'm very interested in crowd-sourcing and online innovation communities. Currently, I'm conducting research on what motivates users to continue sharing ideas, developing concepts, funding projects and ...
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Showing how many users voted that a comment was helpful
I'm building a site with items that can be reviewed, and users can vote whether or not reviews are helpful to bubble the best to the top Amazon-style.
Amazon, Yelp, and almost everything else I could ...
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How wise is it to use a Q&A app AND a forum?
From the research that I have done, a Q&A site (such as this one) is great for support areas of a website. "How do I do ...?" and "What is the best option for ...?" work well with this.
But ...
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How can I teach my web audience how to act on my site BEFORE they get involved?
I have a young site which I intend to be an informational blog, by which I mean I want all of the posts to follow a certain format. The format I am going for is:
Keep the posts short enough for the ...
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How should I allow my members to delete their membership from my site?
What is the best way to allow a member to delete their account if they wish to not be a member of our community? Should I simply have them click a delete button on the site? What other measures should ...
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