Not a big deal BUT... I think the Company/Customer Pact has a typo in item #1 - "conversational" is spelled "converational" (unless converational is a new buzzword outside my vocabulary!)
I just uploaded 2 new product images. Both times I was sent to an url like this http://getsatisfaction.com/balsamiq/c... (with ".inline") which just showed the image URL. If I manually deleted the .inline part, it told me to report this, so here it is. Note that the image upload actually seems to go through fine, so this is only a minor annoyance.
I noticed you have added OpenID login (nice!) and Windows Live login (ugh!) to GS. You should consider adding Information Card login. It is fairly new, and not yet widely deployed, but it is an open standard (unlike Windows Live); it is easier and more secure than OpenID, and it makes forgotten passwords a thing of the past.
Lots of big companies (Google, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, PayPal, Equifax) as well as a bunch of other smaller companies are promoting it. GS could probably get some press by being one of the first popular sites to support the technology.
I know our Get Satisfaction account doesn't need bank-level security, but you could at least get a cheap SSL certificate so that our login credentials can't be sniffed. Many people use the same email/password for many website accounts, so it can be a bigger problem than you think.
I know that OpenID support kinda solves this problem, but the people not using OpenID are probably the people who don't know much about web security.
(Ironically, I've seen people report this same problem on other products, but not here)
This is a very creative idea for a site! I notice, though, that the dashboard seems to have some sort of chronological sequence of events. They really need to be grouped according to some sort of categories and importance (for example, earlier messages in the same thread don't need to be highlighted since the "conversation" has moved on).
Also, I started to go through and add companies where I'm a customer, but with 200 pages or so it just doesn't make sense to wade through all that. Again, consolidation would be useful -- like maybe an alphabetized list with checkboxes where you can add a bunch of companies at once. Later there would be plenty of time to rate them according to whether I'd recommend them or whatever.
Lastly, wouldn't it make sense to auto-tag topics with keywords if they're so vital that they change the "interest" level of a topic from medium to high? You could still let the user add or edit them, but with all the ongoing text parsing during a post anyway, why not snag some keywords along the way? There seems to be a lot of "massaging" needed for an initial post.
I hope I didn't muddy the waters with too many items in a single post. Maybe there could even be checkboxes next to each paragraph for separating multiple concepts within a single post!
This morning I tried to reply to someones post (for a different product). It said I had to log in before I could post. But in the upper right corner of the screen it showed that I WAS logged in.
Logging out and back in resolved the issue, but if I was logged in already why did I have to do that?
I didn't change my notification preferences, but I haven't received any emails from your website since 30 September. I checked my notification preferences anyway, but they still say I should be getting emails.
You might (or not) know that I've been doing quite a lot of thinking and research about multilingualism online (search for "multilingual" on my blog), and one thing I've been dreaming of is a truly multilingual support community.
Satisfaction strikes me as a great opportunity for this. There are quite a lot of strategic/technical issues I'm not going to detail here (yes, it's complicated), but I really think the web needs more spaces where "language management" is close to what it is in real people's lives -- not just a series of linguistic silos.
Customers are not all English-speaking -- and as most people are multilingual, it doesn't really make sense to break up the communities by language.
The registration was way too much for our users that just want to drop us a line that something's not working or they had a random thought. Can we get "quick" option that doesn't require signup, and maybe a "Sign in to get more..."?
We had to revert back to our old system where we just ask for email and give them a box to type in. Would love to switch back if this becomes available though. Thanks!
Hi there. First of all, Get Satisfaction is a great service and I would love to use it for my company - however, my company is located in Norway and 99.9% of my customers are Norwegian and I'm pretty sure not all of them would be comfertable with going to an English site to get support.
So my question is - will ever get satisfaction be translated to Norwegian? And if not, would you be interested in a partnership with Norwegian company that could run a Norwegian version of this site?
As an employee of a company, I need a way to identify topics that needs some following up on at a later date. Right now, I'm just following all these topics, but there's no way for me to see a comprehensive list of everything I'm following.
I just added two companies to "follow". Now, my dashboard is not laid out correctly. In Firefox, the left sidebar is as wide as the entire page, obscuring the Recent Activity entirely. In IE, it is not quite as wide, but it pushes the recent activity items over about halfway (the items are still visible in IE).
I have screenshots of both if you provide a way for me to send them. Thanks.