How Would You Improve The Site?

[Chasity2ku]

@dan the order of my entries is no longer listed from highest rated to lowest. It appears to be listed in order submitted. I'm not sure if this is intentional or an error related to the recent update. Personally I like seeing my highest rated first without having to sort. Thanks 😊

[VelocityGirl]

I would like to see more contest holders liking my entries.

[Dianna]

I see that on our account page, the overall contests have been grouped/divided by Active, Pending, Won, Closed, Watching. That's an good improvement. But I'd still rather see the Watched contests grouped/divided the same way, because those are the ones I check a few times a day. I like to see which contests I'm watching have moved to Pending or Closed (etc.), and that would be much easier if I didn't have to click and scroll through the entire Watched list. Am I the only one who uses the Watched list that much?

[Anjy]

That is what I will love to see...

[ChristyMay]

Would it be possible to add something that would notify us when a CH has made a comment on an entry or added a message to the contest ? The activity feed seems like it would be a good place. We have the option to see any updates but I think the option to see any comments made would be very helpful so we don't miss important information.

[AmandaWhite]

Do you not get the comments emailed to you? Check your notification settings if not.

[ChristyMay]

Thanks Amanda.... I can get them e-mailed but it would be nice to have a notification option on the site

[jackieheraty]

@Dan I think @seezall already mentioned this, but why do a lot of contests say CH was on an hour ago, can this glitch be fixed? They are actively on and rating, yet it says 1 hour ago???

[seezall]

Yes still seeing that as well as entries rated yet marked as unseen..... something funky with CH timing seems to lag when they rate

[ChristyMay]

@Dan would it be possible at some point to add an option in the activity feed that notifies us when a CH has added a message to the contest, and also to notify us when they have added a comment to one of our entries. I thought if it was added as an option like the brief update it would be really helpful. I know this is available by e-mail but depending on what system you are using it can get very cumbersome going back and forth between e-mails and the site.

[Arnet]

This sounds like a good idea. But I have seen several contests that have 25 or more changes listed in their change history. As an example, I just looked at the most recent contest which I have entered, a new contest in the optometry field. It already has 12 changes and is only a few hours old. Another one that I entered yesterday about a design firm has had 33 changes. Of course not all have that many changes, some have none.

So, the end result of your idea, even though it is a good idea, would be that your activity feed would be full of contest changes. This would push the important stuff like the ratings of your submissions off the feed or so far back you would have to scroll and scroll to see them.

[ChristyMay]

The brief changes are already an available option on the Activity Feed, if you click on the option on the top it will show all the changes that are made. This would be no different (in concept) except with New Messages and Entry Comments.

[Chasity2ku]

There are so many times I have lots of ideas but don't want to submit them until my current submissions have been rated. I do this to protect my stats and to avoid overwhelming the CH with undesirable ideas. But sometimes they never get rated so I either enter them anyway (blindly) or completely forget some of those ideas as I move on to other contests.

I'd like to see something along the lines of an entry bank for each contest I enter. I'd like the # of entries in the entry bank to be visible to the CH but not the entries themselves. The CH can potentially view my hidden ideas by rating my unrated entries. Once they rate some of my entries I could then tweak my entry bank or come up with new ideas based on those ratings and submit new entries.

It's an unspoken way of saying, if you like what you see, there's more where that came from...but you gotta let me in on what you're diggin' 😉

I think this would encourage CH ratings and decrease blind entries in contests with little feedback.

Plus, for my own personal benefit, I'd like the bank for memory purposes. The my entries page only works for entries you've submitted. I don't use a pen and paper and I don't want to, so when I have an idea I'd like to be able to store it somewhere within that contest if I'm not ready to submit it yet.

However, the entry bank should only be visible to the CH after a creative has entered a certain amount of entries with no ratings or feedback. For example anytime there's 3 unrated entries (even if others have been rated) the # of entries in the entry box will become visible to the CH showing them you have more ideas but want ratings before you submit new ideas.

The creative always has the option to submit entries even if nothing has been rated. This would be optional to the creative.

[Chasity2ku]

Wow...First of all, I can't believe it's been over 72 days since this thread was relevant. I literally had to search for it. It even warned me its not been used in 72 days and asked if I was sure I wanted to revive this topic and bump it to the top...umm...YES!!! Lol I love this thread! Again, I can't believe it hasn't been used in so long.

Second, I find it really annoying when I view a winning logo and then get directed to the contest page when I try to close out of it. Does anyone else have this issue??

[RachelSH]

Hi @Chasity2ku!

Thank you for searching and bringing this topic back up to the top of the discussion board!! We encourage and appreciate any feedback from SH users!!

I am looking into the issue you have with viewing the winning logo. Are you by chance having this problem while viewing on your mobile phone? Or is this an issue that happens when you view winning logos on our desktop site?

Thank you again!

-Rachel & The SH Team

[Chasity2ku]

Hi @RachelSH, welcome aboard!!

I'm using an iPad. It doesn't always happen. At first I thought I had to be careful where I tap to close out to avoid being redirected, but I've learned there seems to be no rhyme or reason.

It's not a big deal, just annoying, but if it can be fixed I'd appreciate it! Thank you in advance!!

EDIT: I just realized the problem (funny how that works) it appears to redirect me when it overlaps the contest title/link and I tap where it sits (while the logo covers it).

So atleast I know how to avoid it until it's corrected!!

Thanks 🙂

[Marye5]

Hi fellow creatives...I've lost track of some changes.I know there were changes to the point systems a while back.I remember it showing that we wouldn't lose our points for rating changes,I just noticed where I was deducted some points for ratings change does anybody know if it's back to the old system?Thanks.

[Chasity2ku]

@Marye5 I don't believe points go backward anymore so I'd definitely make SH aware as I think that's an error if you actually lost points.

[Marye5]

OK..thanks..I will because I have a -20 ..it went from love to like several times.

[woods30]

I think it would be helpful if the "my entries" page had some extra filtering options.

For instance I like seeing my best entries in a row on there. But it would be cool if i could filter them by "active contests" or "pending"

Also, it would be cool if we could do a domain check on that page. That way we could quickly see if our best submissions are still available. I think it would be easier to keep track like that.