21 Blogger wants to hear from us!
Thursday, April 23, 2009 /

The Blogger Team have released Product Ideas for Blogger: a forum based on the Product Ideas platform which enables us to suggest and vote on new Blogger features, gadgets and even Blogs of Note:



One of the primary factors that drive innovation and improvements on Blogger is the voice of our users. We always take your feedback to heart, and we use it do help make Blogger the best service it can possibly be.


Take a look at this screenshot to get an idea of how this forum works:





We can log in to Product Ideas for Blogger using our Google account, then vote on existing suggestions by clicking the tick (vote up) or cross (vote down).



When you choose a category (features, gadgets or Blogs of Note) you will be presented with a question you have not yet voted on, followed by the most popular suggestions.



You can also get an idea of the ratio of "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" votes by looking at the vote bars to the right of the suggestions:



It's also possible to view the ideas suggested by a particular user by clicking on the name below each suggestion (take a look at mine here).



I'm really excited about this new feature, and think it is the perfect way for the Blogger team to see the features (and recommended blogs) which are most desired by the Blogger community. While we have previously been able to suggest a new feature and suggest blogs of note, these forms gave us no indication of how popular these suggestions were. This forum enables us to see what others have suggested, how popular these suggestions are, and also to vote these up or down depending on our own preferences.



Take a look at Product Ideas for Blogger to vote on your favourite suggestions and make a few of your own.



21 comments:

April 23, 2009 at 3:14 AM Switcher said...

Does the Blogger Product Idea page have a time limit?

I noticed the bottom of the page in your first screen shot, reads (1 week), reads the same way, when I visted the page.

I voted for a few. :)

April 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM Paul Heron said...

I hope everyone reading this hurries up and votes for the features we want, need and desire. It's only open for one week.

April 23, 2009 at 4:42 AM kako-da said...

I just voted for your suggestions. Thanks for info about this page.

April 23, 2009 at 4:56 AM Brad Farless said...

Bout time they opened it up to suggestions and ideas. Maybe they'll actually implement some of them!

Vote for my suggestion! Wordpress style pages! Number 2 on the first page! ^_^

April 23, 2009 at 4:57 AM Brad Farless said...

Oh and one thing I wanted to say... Before making suggestions, read the ones that area already on there. I've noticed tons of duplicates. I've also noticed people suggesting things that are already possible.

April 23, 2009 at 5:16 AM Nicola said...

Some great ideas - I've voted :)

April 23, 2009 at 4:37 PM gatodiakritikos said...

Time is up!Blogger has to keep up with wordpress features!!good idea, but you never know..if they can turn out to be true!!!

April 24, 2009 at 2:58 AM David Bergeron said...

There are a lot of small things that could be changed but can be accomplished by hacks.

What must change I think is custom 404 pages and 301 redirect when you change your blog's URL.

April 24, 2009 at 10:00 AM The Word Seeker said...

I have a feeling that blogger is about to become a lot better than wordpress. I cannot wait until this happens.

April 27, 2009 at 2:18 PM Eden said...

Speaking of things that are already possible @Brad F, I've noticed that a lot of people are interested in a "bulk image upload." If you're using Firefox, it's already possible and incredibly easy.

Check out 1 Step to Bulk-Add Images to Blogger Posts for the details.

April 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM lookj said...

I think blogger want to be strong competitor for wordpress...hehehe

April 29, 2009 at 6:12 AM Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai said...

I will join it straight away. I guess its a good feauture, since I really want blogger to add feautures like stat-counter to blogspot blogs.


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May 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM Chad said...

Very nice! I hope for the following:

1) Remove the navbar or make it optional.
2) Better custom domain support, and ability to publish to "naked domains" (no www) if the domain was bought from a third party registrar and not through Blogger.
3) Better comment moderation & Akismet or similar spam filter.

I don't mind if they make these features into some sort of paid version. Navbar particularly annoys me.

May 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM العاب شمس said...

This is good idea from blogger for make the best services. thanks

May 16, 2009 at 7:16 PM Gossip said...

I agree with ur suggest..

June 4, 2009 at 4:22 AM Marky said...

This will definitely help all of us! I really want to suggest a lot of features for Blogger! Thanks for this.

-Greenman

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