Hi giarc, i always ad the thought to add in 'activities' or 'tags' later on. But, the more i think about it the more important it becomes to implement as soon as possible. The big question i need to answer is if they are predefined or user submitted (as you mentioned in your post). If it just activities then pre-defined would be ok (there are only so many activities you can do).But, if I want a user to be able to tag just about anything (for example a user went to a basketball game and wants to tag a place with 'miamivsdallas') then it must be user defined. Do you have any more thoughts on this?
A good point nirajd. We hope that travel bloggers who are fighting to generate more views for their trips will generally choose to upload interesting and attractive photos in order to stand out from their competitors. But of course being a site with 100% user generated content (travel bloggers or non travel bloggers) we expect to see a diverse range of quality.
Hi personlurking, well it's not really a huge problem right now because the site has hardly any content :) But, to answer your question the trips are generally ordered by popularity (views and likes). Thanks for the feedback
hi archagon, thanks for the feedback. it's nice to hear from people who would consider using itripd. Yes, at the moment we only support one pin style. But, the current pin system does cluster very well so you may find that the existing clustering system works well for your trips with many pins in close proximity to each other. I will experiment with some other pin designs in the meantime. There is no mobile app at the moment but the site functions well in the browser on tablets and phones. Thanks for the link to your trip :)
hi yitchelle, the search feature needs to be improved. One big problem with search eature is that it can only be so useful to he user if there is not much content to display in the results. That is the reason i left if off the homepage to begin with. Once we have more content im sure a nice big search bar will find its way on to the homepage :)
Thanks lukasm, I will be looking at improving the on-boarding of users very soon. I agree that an empty profile isn't the most enticing sight for a new user.
thank you, we had actually recently discussed the idea putting more emphasis on the description of each place for those users who r looking for more of a journal. if we go down that road the user would probably want to include more information about each stop such as transportation mode, amount of time spent etc... useful comments mike which we will take on board :)
