Help us improve the Manage Connections page
Hello!
My name’s Celia, and I’ve joined Dopplr as the Community Design Manager. As Matt said, that means that my job is to talk to the people out there who are using Dopplr, find out what’s working and what’s not, and help the development team improve things accordingly.
This is going to take a few different forms. For example, sometimes I might post screenshots or prototypes that we’ve been working on, and ask for your feedback. Other times I might ask you seemingly vague questions to try and get to the bottom of what you’d really like us to do for you. Or I might ask you quite directed questions about something that we’ve already built - and that’s what I’m about to do now.
We think the ‘Manage Connections’ page could be better. We have some ideas up our sleeves, but we’d like to know what you think of it, too. What’s working for you, and what’s not? Let us know what you think by joining the discussion over on the Satisfaction site.
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HI Celia
Dopplr’s a fun tool that I’m becoming more used to using….but here’s something strange…and annoying.
I’m planning a trip to Erendria, Mexico. It is a fishing village south of Ensenada. (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Erendria,+Mexico&sll=32.374162,-116.869812&sspn=0.594992,0.943451&ie=UTF8&ll=31.280531,-116.372166&spn=0.037631,0.058966&t=h&z=14&iwloc=addr)
But every time I put my trip in, Dopplr can’t find it, so it forces me to go to some other place that is no where near where I’m planning on going. Is there any way, after determining that a location doesn’t exist in your the database, I can keep my type written destination?
thanks,
john
Hi John
Thanks for your comment. The reason that Dopplr “corrects” you is explained in this FAQ item:
http://www.dopplr.com/main/faq#03-05
There’s no way to type in your destination at the moment, but we’re working on solutions to this as it’s a common problem. In the meantime, I’d recommend adding a larger town nearby. I know it’s not the same, but hopefully it’s OK as a short-term solution while we work on a longer-term fix.
Celia
Hi –
This is indirectly about connections —
I think when I first started using Dopplr it was really easy to see when two people had a coincidence — there were two lines in different colours showing when they were in that city. But now I have a notice I have a coincidence but I cannot make out from any of the views what day that coincidence is! There are still wiggly lines on the main trip page, but just one which doesn’t show which humps are which traveler, and also they don’t really specify the date, it is over a rather wide period. I find the calendar view not useful for this either. Am I missing something?