Feature Requests

Would be great to have categories option for submissions. Makes it easier to organize and filter, especially when there are lots of entries.

When a user visits the site they now see my branding. When they want to sign up they get told they are signing up to a 'slinkset' account. This creates some confusion at a key point. I would be willing to pay a small amount to have my own branding throughout the site (ie no slinkset branding at all).

It would be really good to have a leader board for contributers.
Basically the more like HN the better!

A long term challenge, maybe... it's the one thing reddit never got

When someone replies to a comment you've made on Reddit, your little mailbox icon turns red, and when you click on it you can see the reply.

This is a great way for discussions to continue, because you don't have to actually go back and check to see if there were replies.

(I thought you guys might have this feature, since your admins are so good about replying to comments I leave, no matter how deep in the thread!)

This is quite a personalized one. I have a Ning community I administer and there's no good way to share community news. I'd love to have a large (fully functional - not just rss) widget for my slinkset site that I could fit on to my front page of my ning site.

or else what's the point of creating an account ...

The ability to tag an URL submission and a Tag cloud for the site would be a very useful feature.

Use case would be "Tag articles about competitors as 'competitor'; or 'features'"

I wouldn't even put this as a high priority myself, but it would allow for some interesting possibilties.

For example, I was having a conversation with some people at my employer about the possibility of using slinkset as a way to set up a voting/nomination process for an awards program my company puts on. I realized the only way I could truly make it work would be if i could eliminate the age of post as a factor in the sort algorithm, and also control pagination (so i could get all of the nominees on the same screen).

Anyhow, just an idea which may be of use some day.

to make slinkset easy signin and social. Does it on your roadmap?

It might be interesting to have an 'evergreen tab' in addition to the popular & recent tabs.

'Recent' uses a date heavy ranking algorithm (I assume), 'evergreen' uses a vote heavy algorithm & 'popular' ranks using both. I can see several uses for such a feature or variations of it. In combination with other requested features (eg tags/categories) it can be even more useful.

For example, in a heavily tagged/categorised slinkset, it could be used as a resource centre. For a low traffic slinkset, this might make a better 'homepage.'

Maybe it would be useful to just let admins set the weighting of time/votes to create a custom tab. I assume that a different criteria for ranking is appropriate for different sites. Quick news sites (like digg/reditt) are very time sensitive, but slinksets might have other uses that do not require a large number of daily submissions to 'work'.

Maybe you already take care of this in the background with a dynamic system comes up with a ranking criteria for a site individually, taking into account how busy the site is. I dunno, I'm a new user.

I've always hated the Reddit-style list view (that Slinkset uses). I much prefer the digg-style list view. Can you create two or three options for us to choose from? Easy stuff. Let people decide what they like best.