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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1120 on: August 21, 2020, 11:41:28 AM »
never going to happen unless you find @jj1000 an alternative
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1121 on: August 21, 2020, 11:42:42 AM »
Not having accurate locations can be really frustrating. Just check the "unemployment help" thread - so many people ask location-specific questions and they fail to specify their location. Having a more reliable location field would circumvent a lot of frustration.

I'm sure @cgr would agree.
It wouldn't necessarily help with that as people aren't always filing where they are currently located
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« Reply #1122 on: August 21, 2020, 11:44:06 AM »
It wouldn't necessarily help with that as people aren't always filing where they are currently located
True, but I think it would raise the percentage of accurate answers.

Did you write "not Lakewood" because of privacy concerns, or because you wanted to have a clever meme on your profile?

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1123 on: August 21, 2020, 11:45:50 AM »
Did you write "not Lakewood" because of privacy concerns, or because you wanted to have a clever meme on your profile?
I don't remember but probably a bit of both. There may have been a discussion going on when I wrote it? TBH writing Lakewood would have been a better way to stay anonymous :)

Either way if I had to choose from a dropdown I'd just skip.
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1124 on: August 21, 2020, 11:52:01 AM »
It wouldn't necessarily help with that as people aren't always filing where they are currently located
Correct- was going to respond with that and:
When it comes to unemployment you file in your employment state, not in your residence state. If you live in NJ and work in NY you apply in NY, so even if you're currently and always were located in NJ, your filing state would be NY.
And I don't think DDF should be customized to unemployment rules ;D

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1125 on: August 27, 2020, 10:00:11 AM »
Allow attachments in PMs

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1126 on: August 27, 2020, 10:08:55 AM »
Allow attachments in PMs
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And postimages
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1127 on: August 27, 2020, 10:18:44 AM »
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And postimages
It became the norm to be able attach photos. But when I send a pm there's no option to attach.

 Have to make a post and add and copy link from there to here.
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1128 on: August 27, 2020, 11:56:33 AM »
Seperate notification for any new topic with "hot" or "hurry" in the title.
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1129 on: August 27, 2020, 12:08:35 PM »
Seperate notification for any new topic with "hot" or "hurry" in the title.
That would be a neat feature.
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1130 on: August 27, 2020, 01:06:39 PM »
Seperate notification for any new topic with "hot" or "hurry" in the title.
I imagine that would take away a lot of revenue + make Hot! Hurry! Deals that expire within minutes harder to get.

IME users check DDMS regularly hoping to find a hot deal but end up buying something else which catches their attention.

 Alternatively since there are less so-so deals people would check every notification immediately as they know it's a great deal, causing them to sell out faster.

Maybe they cam offset the loss by charging more for ads on the Hot page. @jj1000?
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1131 on: August 27, 2020, 01:19:43 PM »
I imagine that would take away a lot of revenue + make Hot! Hurry! Deals that expire within minutes harder to get.

IME users check DDMS regularly hoping to find a hot deal but end up buying something else which catches their attention.

 Alternatively since there are less so-so deals people would check every notification immediately as they know it's a great deal, causing them to sell out faster.

Maybe they cam offset the loss by charging more for ads on the Hot page. @jj1000?
I was more specifically referring to posts on DDF
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1132 on: August 27, 2020, 01:47:45 PM »
I imagine that would take away a lot of revenue + make Hot! Hurry! Deals that expire within minutes harder to get.

IME users check DDMS regularly hoping to find a hot deal but end up buying something else which catches their attention.

 Alternatively since there are less so-so deals people would check every notification immediately as they know it's a great deal, causing them to sell out faster.

Maybe they cam offset the loss by charging more for ads on the Hot page. @jj1000?
Once you are getting there, make a premium DDF membership which costs $x per year (free if you have more than xx hattips) which gets you access to hot/all deals x minutes earlier.

But that will never happen on the site where all are welcome and all are treated equally.

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1133 on: August 28, 2020, 08:06:34 AM »
Once you are getting there, make a premium DDF membership which costs $x per year(free if you have more than xx hattips) which gets you access to hot/all deals x minutes earlier.

But that will never happen on the site where all are welcome and all are treated equally.
I thought you would say "based on ratio of Likes/Post"

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1134 on: September 01, 2020, 12:18:11 AM »
This idea may be far fetched but how about a section of "booking flight strategys" part of ddms? This may be one of my biggest flaws. Start off with simple and popular routes. NYC is probably you're biggest audience so I'd say to start with flights NYC-FLL, NYC-TLV, etc. and a breakdown to which sites and mileage programs you check first, and what to do with no availability... It should be fairly simple when a newbie is looking for a specific route so he or she would navigate to the post with that route.

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1135 on: September 01, 2020, 11:02:09 AM »
This idea may be far fetched but how about a section of "booking flight strategys" part of ddms? This may be one of my biggest flaws. Start off with simple and popular routes. NYC is probably you're biggest audience so I'd say to start with flights NYC-FLL, NYC-TLV, etc. and a breakdown to which sites and mileage programs you check first, and what to do with no availability... It should be fairly simple when a newbie is looking for a specific route so he or she would navigate to the post with that route.
and put the last nail in the Travel Agent industry...

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1136 on: September 03, 2020, 07:46:48 AM »
I've checked out @12HRS 's profile page too many times. Fat fingers trying to get to JS.  Can the username be moved to a more finger-friendly place?
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« Reply #1137 on: September 03, 2020, 07:51:21 AM »
I've checked out @12HRS 's profile page too many times. Fat fingers trying to get to JS.  Can the username be moved to a more finger-friendly place?

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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1138 on: September 03, 2020, 05:11:36 PM »
Can we add a "Show recently read" link up top?
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Re: Site Suggestions
« Reply #1139 on: September 03, 2020, 08:43:24 PM »
Not sure how difficult it would be to implement but how about a single daily notification of new posts to followed threads?
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