Have your say on the future of Competitions Time

MSE_Stephen

I've just added a Tagging in Competitions Time thread for suggestions.

binna

 i like the checkboxes so i know which i've entered and which I don't want to. I would also like something that's more clearer on individual posts (like the puzzler ones) where I can see where I last entered from one of those posts. the thanks button used to be good for this. 
Being able to search by type would also be useful. I don't enter the instagram ones for example so would be good to be able to omit them. 
I like being able to organise in end date order too

jmw33

I agree with the comments on social media competitions - I don't do these either so it would be good to have Facebook, Instagram etc on a separate thread.  

pebbles691

I usually go through each page clicking x if not automatically interested and opening up others that I am interested in. It would be helpful if these links automatically popped into a new screen, instead of doing this manually so can still have access to the original thread. Once entered I click green or save to my own phones favourites to enter later.

For the puzzler ones I go in separately and hit thanks to recognise entry however I find it very difficult to see if I have thanked them. It’s not as obvious as the green/red boxes and usually I need to click again to see if the number goes up or down to recognise if I had previously thanked them. 

I don’t enter social media posts, is it possible to have these in a separate thread? That may be a personal preference rather than something many people agree with.

In the past I found the expiry dates (closing soon) very helpful but I haven’t used that as much since I started competitions again. 

dangler

MSE_Stephen said:

Hi everyone

Just one other thing I'd like some feedback on - How do you use the manually entered date in the Title? - 

"E: 10/07"

Do you glance at this while you're working through the list of comps?
Do you Search for dates?
Do you use it in some other way?

I use this as the title to move to my Google bookmarks and then this allows sorting when I enter in batches

bunnysideup

I too, would really appreciate not having to right click to open comps in new tab. 

It would also be great to have  ‘types of competition’  user preferences filtering  Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, or entry methods such as email entry
As a left handed person, I would be thrilled if users can select the entered/ ignored button on the left hand side of listings

avscomps

I agree with all of the suggestions already made, but a big one for me that I haven't seen on here is the ability to filter out the competitions I've clicked the red X on. I don't want to enter those, and have skipped them, but they stay on the list and it's hard to see what I've not yet reviewed, especially as I filter by closing date and things end up on all different pages so I spend way too long clicking through 50+ pages just to see a sea of red Xs.

Joolski

I would just ask that any changes made are checked that they work on Tablets or phones. 

I keep reading comments mentioning hovering over a title, or right-clicking something, etc etc, which aren't the same on mobile devices. 

So I would just ask that you bear in mind that not all of us are working on computers.  Thanks!

jaydeetee

I would like MD (Mag Daily) posts to be removed from the main board as there seem to be an increasing number of these that are viewed by a relatively small number of users. I have just had to red tag 51 MD posts this morning between 10.12am and 12.09pm that I am not interested in. Going back in time I do not remember MD’s being posted at the rate that they are now. Apologies if this has already been mentioned but I would really prefer it if they were posted in a new place in Competitions Time.

MSE_Stephen

Hi everyone

Thanks for all the suggestions!

Just to say we're still keeping an eye on this thread and assessing what's possible in preparation for our new Comps Time!