Suggest features for SkaDate software on UserVoice

SMS notifications modul

2012-02-02T04:10:07-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
Users get all site alerts to their cell phones, approvals and interest expressed etc.

Flirts [updated]

2012-01-29T15:21:13-08:00

I think it would be awesome if we could have flirts. Admin creates them, and the users send them to other users. The same way you send a message. You go to their profile (or in the members list with the others: bookmark..ect) and click 'Send Flirt'. The flirts are sentences like pick up lines. Instead of sending them a message cuz your afraid of saying the wrong thing, or a gift cuz you dont know which one is the right one, you could send them a flirt. Ex: I click 'Send flirt'. A box pops up (like the gifts & messages), I find one of the flirts(ex: Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?) and send it to the user. I think this is a great idea! A LOT of other site builder have this option too.. im surprised you guys havent dont it yet.

Ash said:

done*

Flirts

2012-01-29T15:20:16-08:00

Ash suggested:
I think it would be awesome if we could have flirts. Admin creates them, and the users send them to other users. The same way you send a message. You go to their profile (or in the members list with the others: bookmark..ect) and click 'Send Flirt'. The flirts are sentences like pick up lines. Instead of sending them a message cuz your afraid of saying the wrong thing, or a gift cuz you dont know which one is the right one, you could send them a flirt. Ex: I click 'Send flirt'. A box pops up (like the gifts & messages), I find one of the flirts(ex: Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?) and send it to the user. I think this is a great idea! A LOT of other site builder have this option too.. im surprised you guys havent dont it yet.

Newfeed only for friends and follow members [updated]

2012-01-29T11:38:53-08:00

On "member home", "Newsfeed" display the news of all members, is it possible to display only the news for "friends or followers" and all members ?

Ash said:

this is a great idea! I dont want to see just what everyone is up to. I want to see my friends/followers seperate. It would be a lot easier. Instead of having to go to their profile to see what theyre up to or looking through EVERYONE. Just look under the tab of friends/followers and you can see. =)

text notifications

2012-01-28T20:48:52-08:00

Joseph Ruben suggested:
The option for members to get text notification of events on their profile page.

sections for favorite music, books, etc

2012-01-28T20:47:05-08:00

Joseph Ruben suggested:
Provide a section for members to upload their favorite entertainers pictures, books covers, or CD labels.

Who viewed me info [updated]

2012-01-28T20:43:02-08:00

Let's give "who viewed me" some more info : when did someone visit your profile (day & hour) & how many times ?

Joseph Ruben said:

I would be nice to have to option to email members of who viewed them or showed some interest..

Badges

2012-01-17T17:36:49-08:00

Ash suggested:
It would be nice if admin could create badges that will automatically be given out with certain things that users do. Like it they post so many pictures, give them a "amesome pictures" badge. Badges are just pictures that have certain words or clipart on them that represent what the user did to earn that badge. This would be AWESOME for my social networking site!

Newfeed only for friends and follow members

2012-01-16T06:15:00-08:00

Fred suggested:
On "member home", "Newsfeed" display the news of all members, is it possible to display only the news for "friends or followers" and all members ?

friend networking disabled should be reflected in album settings

2012-01-14T09:05:51-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
If friend networking is disabled the option to have friends only photo album should be removed

Users should not see other users, just the one that he matches with him

2012-01-05T09:59:06-08:00

Dennis Tod. suggested:
The idea is the users to become hidden from each other so they wont hessitate to input personal information and real photos etc. Each user will be able to see only his matches and to be seen by his matches.

people you may know and walls will be perfect

2011-12-24T21:05:39-08:00

free webcam chat [updated]

2011-12-22T07:33:38-08:00

Create free webcam flash chat. Now skadate have 123flashchat (free, but limited to 10 connections.. unlimited costs $1500) and chuppo for $50 pre month. I think this will be one great feature that will bring more customers for websites and for skadate.

Vivian Odoh said:

I strongly support this idea, unlimited free webcam chat will bring more customers to skadate and webmasters, or lower the cost of webcam to more affordable price.

A few more features [updated]

2011-12-22T07:11:22-08:00

Most important to me is the possibility to redirect the users after registration to the checkout page and give them acces to that page only until they pay More payment providers; ability to let guests to add comments or rate photos; Modify the thumnail size; traffic statistics; more features for the affiliate part;

Vivian Odoh said:

I strongly support this idea, that member should be redirect to checkout page and stay there until they pay before they can have access to any site features.

I support the idea for more payment gateways that accept payments global or worldwide credit card, debit card, bank transfer, e-checks, wire transfer.

I also support the offline payment idea, if skadate can add a module form that members can fill out on the site and it will automatically generate a member username and address where the member will mail their checks or money order to and also allow the member to print out the form and mail the form along with they checks or money orders.

Thanks

Remote search plugin

2011-12-20T23:35:13-08:00

Anonymous suggested:
Was thinking and have seen examples on other classifieds of search boxes placed on other sites to search your website. Pretty much similar to the remote adverts plugin but as a search feature instead :D Just an idea,

Date Bait [updated]

2011-12-19T16:17:40-08:00

This is something we had in another online solution and it was pretty simple and nice, don't know if someone has brought it up already. The idea is to have an image/link where member would click if he/she is interested in that person. If that other person ever does the same on his/her profile, it shows a match/combination... a nice way to get things going.

newbie said:

This feature is similar to...
http://suggest.skadate.com/forums/23914-suggest-features-for-skadate-software/suggestions/1094297-how-about-a-booty-call-or-a-who-wants-to-meet-n

Stop members from adding contact information any text box. [updated]

2011-12-18T17:56:50-08:00

Posts: 25 View Profile Email Personal Message (Online) Contact Hi, I would like to know how to stop members from adding their contact information to the message text box, easy text box, comment text box. for instance i want it to say error or reject member whenever their add email, phone number or address to any text box. it will reject them and ask them to remove their contact information before their sending can go through. Thanks

Ed said:

What good is it if you have a website that people can contact others and not pay for services, It cost too much as it is to keep a site going, so no contact information should be allowed unless an admin approves it first.
Any information containing @ should not allow sender to complete transaction, and tell them contact information is forbidden for their safety.

photo battle [updated]

2011-12-18T17:44:50-08:00

Photo Battle let members vote for best picture to receive prize. Points, membership or cash or what admin chooses to allow.

Ed said:

You know that offering a photo battle could increase more people willing to upload their pictures to get votes. I find that this could help with the willingness of people uploading pictures to website rather than some cartoon picture. Personally I like to see real people in pictures to feel like I know them.

Custom Email Template (not just for mass email) [updated]

2011-12-18T17:37:51-08:00

Currently all emails sent to users (for example: Friend Request, Membership Expired, New Message) are just text and to implement an email template we have to edit each message individually. If there was a way to implement a central email template or header image that would be great and make the emails look professional.

Ed said:

Custom emails should be set up where admin can send custom email to specific members, not just in mass mail. I found that some members are using photo of other members and need to send photo change request to member(s) and custom stored email would be much better that typing message over and over.

Please make a pending profile feature that does not assign a member number. [updated]

2011-12-18T17:33:06-08:00

In most cases I wish profile was not assigned a number for membership. I wish there was a pending feature that assigned a profile number after profile was reviewed. This would allow the admin to reject membership without screwing up the accounting of memberships that are accepted. Bottom line is memberships should be pending before a membership number is assigned and a email should be allowed to be sent by the admin to member who wishes to join in the event the admin requires profile changes before membership is accepted. I have several members using the same photo of other members, which I would like to stop. As well as force members to be more honest.

Ed said:

I agree that a membership number should not be appled to new people registering until after they have beeb approved by the admin. I also find people using the same photo over and over from other members, as well as creating multiple accounts with a slight varieation in user name.

Profiles need a pending aspect before a membership number is applied, to allow admin to accept or reject profile being a member.
There needs to be a feature that allows admin to reject memberships with a custom email that can be sent to rejected member explaining reason for rejection of membership.

restrict website links used in profile headline [updated]

2011-12-18T17:25:11-08:00

On my site I find members using website links in profile headline, which should be not allowed. I wish skadate would terminate the use of website links being allowed in profile creation. No website links should be allowed in profile creation in headline or in profile. I'm not a advertising agency for websites.. Please make an auto rejection of website links in profile.

Ed said:

Too many people signing up using website links and contact information in profile, essays. More spam control needs to be implemented informing user that content is not allowed in profile content, essays,
I feel like I have a spammers heaven with current configuration of site. This issue needs a resolution very quick.

provide more amin controls to blogs. tags, time frame excetra

2011-12-18T17:12:52-08:00

Ed suggested:
Blogs need more admin contols to limit usage. I don't mind provideing free blogs, however I thinks a time frame and amount of blogs being posted are critical. I feel member can post blogs but not more than 4 in 48 hours. Also Blogs need a captcha added to them Admin should also Have the ablilty to control a time frame for how long blogs remain on website, then admin can delete blogs in bulk after 180 days or what ever at the admins descrestion. Keeping a website fresh is important. Currently there are no admin controls to have blog or tags content pending approval from admin. Nor is there controls to limit usage per hour or quanity of blogs being posted. Due to this issue I have been hit with spammers posting over 1000 blogs per hour with repeated content in the blogs. Admin needs controls to remove and ban tags from being used. Google just about blacklisted my site before I found out what was happening. thus I had to remove total blog usage from my site because of spammers posting blogs, There are allot of core improvements that need to be done to provide more admin contols over entire site. Even if you have a subscriber there are no limit controls that can be placed on blogs (such as time, quanity or days duration when blogs can be posted and auto removal/ experation time.

skadate seo ! [updated]

2011-12-18T17:11:48-08:00

Make skadate more google friendly, with for example topic description in meta tags description ! or automatically topic title in meta tag ittle this for all the modules : forum, blogs, etc.... because skdate is NOT SEDO frendly :(

olli said:

Google Geotargeting factors SEO URL structures is very importand.
URL parameters

eg: site.com?loc=de, ?country=france, etc.
pros (+)
(not recommended)

cons (-)
- segmentation based on the URL is difficult
- users might not recognize geotargeting from the URL alone
- geotargeting in Webmaster Tools is not possible

Subdirectories with gTLDs
eg: site.com/de/, site.com/fr/, etc.
pros (+)
- easy to set up
- can use Webmaster Tools geotargeting
- low maintenance (same host)

cons (-)
- users might not recognize geotargeting from the URL alone
- single server location
- separation of sites harder

Look for moor here

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/03/working-with-multi-regional-websites.html

free webcam chat [updated]

2011-12-17T08:39:59-08:00

Michael Phelps said:

Oh, and there's also WoWza, which (at last check) is a free alternative to FMS

free webcam chat [updated]

2011-12-17T08:38:43-08:00

Michael Phelps said:

Peter, at risk of bringing up an older thread, Do you know how much it costs to self-host a video chat service? Bandwidth charges alone would kill you.

That being said, Red5 Has become more stable over the years of it's lifespan. Moving to that form of solution would allow for a more robust video chat platform, and vurtually 0 cost to SD or the Consumer.

Developer Version

2011-12-17T08:34:38-08:00

Michael Phelps suggested:
There needs to be a developer version. Something that is encrypted, or heavily branded. Developers like me want time to build the site on a private platform, and then put it live. having to pay for a license up front severely inhibits our ability to run in a development environment to fully evaluate the software for our needs, and the demos just don't cut it for serious developers because we can't get to the meat of the backend to test it's full potential (run it through the ringer, so to speak)

provide winks

2011-12-14T15:42:31-08:00

LoveSail suggested:
I have paying and non-paying members, so it would be nice for the paying members to send a wink (pre-determined so no contact details are added) to non-paying members. This would encourage them to join.

Select a theme option would be great like in the design section of Twitter's Settings

2011-12-07T07:45:42-08:00

Ben suggested:
Select a theme option would be great like in the design section of Twitter's Settings

How about a "Booty Call" or a "Who Wants To Meet Now" feature [updated]

2011-12-06T17:31:44-08:00

Members want a page that lists everybody that is looking to meet up now or today, so last minute plans are easy to make!

Vivian Odoh said:

This is a very good idea for dating industrial. when do skadate upgrade the software? i ran out of vote. i can not vote no more but i would like to comments on more payments gateways that accepts echeck , money order and mail check. and also accept adult dating site.

Thanks

A few more features [updated]

2011-12-06T15:20:34-08:00

olli said:

affiliate part with banner stc.

Payment Providers: Bank Transfer [updated]

2011-12-06T15:13:21-08:00

Please add a "provider" which will only show my bank details to the customer for a manual bank transaction. Fields could be "account holder", "account number", "bank number" (BLZ in German), "bank name", "IBAN number", "SWIFT (BIC) address". The customer would have to manually do the transaction.

olli said:

I think also it was a good idea

Help Fight Spam [updated]

2011-12-06T05:06:44-08:00

The comments, blogs and forum posts needs improvements to fight spam. First, all these features should require a captcha verification before the post is made. Spammers are using automation to write posts/commets throughout the website. A captcha verification can significantly reduce this. Second, links in posts/comments should have the "no follow" tag. Spammers are using the website for backlinking purposes. We don't want our website to pass on link juice to other irrelevant websites which may harm our google page rank and SERP. If one spammer finds out our website links or "do follow", then the spammer will let other spammers know about this and cause more spammers to come on to our website. The "no follow" tag is necessary to prevent spammers. Many skadate clients want improved SEO so this would also help. Just for good measure, links should also have the target="_blank". When a member clicks on a link we don't want them to leave our dating website, rather have the link open in a new tab or window.

sc said:

Hey, yeah that is correct. Let us fix this...

top navigation menu similar to facebook

2011-12-06T04:59:03-08:00

1pablo suggested:
Could you please introduce me as a menu similar to FB? Gathered would be more space in the navigation menu and it would be even clearer. It's a simple bar, where will a new request for friendship, messages, friends activity, Language, Search, Home and My Profile see a image http://www.skalfa.com/ca/forum/index.php?topic=4364.0

Add AlertPay to skadate [updated]

2011-12-04T10:02:26-08:00

I think AlertPay is a good one.

Raul Lazar said:

It's a good ideea because alertpay allows you to pay with a credit card if you are a verified seller and doesn't require to pay a monthly fee .
A little offtopic : PayPal is very frustating because they block the accounts without any reason .

restrict website links used in profile headline [updated]

2011-12-02T20:08:58-08:00

olli said:

I agree website links should not be allowed in profile description nor in profile. Website links in profile should restrict members from registering as member

My proposed new features for next version of Skadate [updated]

2011-12-02T20:01:39-08:00

Hello, Here are the new features I would like to see in the next version of Skadate 1) Registration on the site via Facebook Connect Twitter Connect 2) New themes 3) In admin panel you can see the IP addresses of the members but I think it could be that the IP address is clickable and leads a worm detection site IP address as http://network-tools.com/ 4) Include the form of invitation of friends (Open Inviter) in the registration form as Facebook with the possibility of forcing members to invite their friends to complete the registration it would increase it many new members on the site 5) Put a chat (messenger) would be more like Facebook and members can use the site without having to stay on top of the cat 6) Site language identification by IP address Fast choice of a site language version by IP, user OS settings/ System does it automatically and adds a country flag to a language name on the index page. Users can change language any time if it's wrong. Thank

olli said:

Great idea

IPhoneApp [updated]

2011-11-27T15:14:20-08:00

Make the Mobile Edtion into an app, sites will atract more visitors. People how are wondering around in the appstore, what can I find, do, try, and most important what can I download for free. If they see dating, I am pretty sure a lot of people will download and try it.

md said:

yes this is must be that all work will be most on it and it also have to have more future so pls skadate work on this to

thank

IPhoneApp [updated]

2011-11-27T15:12:26-08:00

md said:

yes need this that all work going to be on it so it must

The software should have where when the user is on line it blinks to let you know they are online [updated]

2011-11-27T12:27:27-08:00

Your software should have it where when a user is online it blinks to let others know they are online

md said:

yes it have to have same vld have they have Online friends if member no want be chat he can chang his id to offline or invsbel or biz or online and also skadate must have tool same vld do in member it fast for chat and see who online and also it better to have chat room future with lock and other future in it

Unlimited License Option - http://www.vldpersonals.com/purchase/options/ Or at leas [updated]

2011-11-27T12:23:22-08:00

Included in the sale of an unlimited number of licenses: Unlimited License Option - http://www.vldpersonals.com/purchase/options/ Or at least an additional for the ability to install up to 5 different domains: Multi Domain License with Free Installation, the software can be installed on up to five domains. You get a ready-made design with your software - http://startsocialnetwork.org/buy.htm Thank you.

md said:

it good if they can offer this like othere site offering and it have to be to same that they can offer thing then why skadate not do same

Help Fight Spam [updated]

2011-11-26T18:16:55-08:00

newbie said:

Holy Crap, I just noticed that too now, your demo is full of spammers. If you're trying to sell a dating script, having spammers on your demo is bad marketing/publicity. This is the same issue us Skadate users are having.

Regarding making the links "no follow". It would be nice if the admins can have the option to only allow paid members to put links. It'll help with marketing our website and better avoid spamming.

Help Fight Spam [updated]

2011-11-26T05:58:33-08:00

avp said:

Good Idea, will vote for if my other votes are made.

Help Fight Spam [updated]

2011-11-24T02:56:01-08:00

Calin said:

Yes, captcha is necessary on all those places newbie said previous. Pls implement it as it is a necessity.

I would love for my site to look and feel like bbwcupid.com [updated]

2011-11-23T17:15:06-08:00

This Australian company (cupidmedia) has 34 different websites, all different niche dating. I created an account with them a long time ago, and I could not fault their websites for anything. It's solid, attractive design yet gives user confidence. Please create an account there and see how flawless their website is in terms of navigability, ease of use, security... I would love for my site to look and feel like their!

newbie said:

I prefer to have it look like www.pof.com

skadate seo ! [updated]

2011-11-22T07:20:01-08:00

Calin said:

The big problem is that not having seo friendly url's, right now the the link building results will be very poor for all sites site using skadate. I think url friendly to all sections of the site (forum, blogs, groups, etc) should be a priority regarding SEO of skadate and should be implemented in next release.

Please let us know IRENE

Thx

Phone Application [updated]

2011-11-21T15:44:56-08:00

More people are moving to smartphones with data plans. To have people always on your dating site, how about interactive phone applications? Each one customized, for example, the iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Sony Ecrisson, Nokia, Windows Mobile, Android, INQ, etc.... It's just like Facebook and Twitter on the go.

newbie said:

Easton, I don't think supporting ads on a phone app is a good idea, it'll ruin the customer experience especially when the phone screen is much smaller than a desktop/laptop. The idea of the phone app is to keep members more engaged primarily, not to generate revenue. Besides, there is already a mobile version of skadate, not sure if it has ads capability.

skadate seo ! [updated]

2011-11-21T13:39:24-08:00

Calin said:

BIG SUPPORT for suggestion from page 2 of newbie:
From my SEO knowledge meta title and content and keywords , and unique content has a great importance for a good internal structure SEO. In order to make a good SEO you need to have an strong internal seo, a build in seo platform , like for example is magento for ecommerce. A platform which automatically creates meta titles, meta description and keywords based url's and which automatically creates meta titles and meta description based on the members added available info. Photo tagging and using that info for photos would be realy good also.

IRENE - please look into newbie suggestions from 2-nd page( as they haven't been answered yet) and pls look for a way to implement those as soon as possible. We are waiting fro your answer. Thx

"
- Also the member profile page needs a unique meta description as well, we should use the members "in my own words" text as the description because their own words will be unique and avoid duplicate meta descriptions.
- page titles and meta descriptions
- URLs. We need to make the URLs SEO friendly by adding keywords into them.

TO some things up...we need unique page titles and meta decriptions for all pages created by members as well as SEO friendly URLs. "

To anybody else who knows something about SEO, please suport this suggestions by commenting and voting. If your votes are over I think it also helps to tell your opinion here.

Thx again

Shoutbox + chat upgrade [updated]

2011-11-20T06:52:03-08:00

I suggest few upgrades so we make this decent: 1) In admin area one more option to enable/disable bridge between default chat (members/chat) and shoubox , so chat can become one piece and for those who dont want it - they can leave it seperated as it is now. 2) chat should be more fancy, with some kind of effects during sending msg (greyed), receiving and similar. Also should have more ajax regarding messages which should be cleared (after xx minutes/lines), so we dont need to refresh site so those "old" messages disapear. 3) Possibility to make filters in shoubox (disable links and certain words) this three affects both normal and shoutbox chat.

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Shoutbox + chat upgrade [updated]

2011-11-20T06:51:56-08:00

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Add cool images to Sign Up pages. [updated]

2011-11-19T18:00:51-08:00

Let's add cool pictures that prospective member's click instead of radio buttons & check boxes in the Sign Up process. This will make the Sign Up pages 'easy on the eye' and the new feature will minimize the number of members dropping out of the 'catch page'.

newbie said:

I agree with SC, we need to simplify the sign-up process. I am noticing a lot of dating sites are easing the registration process for a user to become a member quickly. Obviously, through the admin panel we can control the required fields. What we need to have is a reminder for the member to complete the remainder of their profile once registered with a "percentage of profile completed" on the member's profile.