"You are not authorized to access this page..."
I get this reply every now and then when i try to post
(this time to the Fast Talk...when will people want to watch full length
video on a cell phone...)
Please fix
Where is the "Post Comment" button?
How can I see/browse/search the member list of a group that I am part of?
Think user and listening, not push and talk.
Here's a story:
I got the paper FC in the mailbox yesterday. As always, I dove straight into it. I was touched by the passion about the new site and what you are trying to accomplish with it. So I thought: let's give them a chance.
I uploaded my contacts from LinkedIn. I see a list and a button that says: "Send Invitations"
So I get VERY CAUTIOUS. These are my contacts and in many ways, my lifeblood. What am I sending them when I hit this button. So I tick one. Not all. What I see confirms my suspicion: Martijn Sjoorda wants you to join FC and then a sales pitch from you guys about the site.
I have just lost interest in 30 seconds. The paper FC boasts two really good things this month: 1) it has an authentic, passionate statement about the FC site, which really connects people to your goals. Reread it and adapt your style on the site. 2) an article about why Barack Obama's campaign is so succesful at this stuff. Read it and apply it to the site.
Then call on me again to make it my business communications hub. And if it's really good, I promiss I'll even pay for it.
Good luck.
Hi,
I had made some recommendations,added my netwrok and commented on a couple of Q & A.However when I logged in just now,I observed that all the data is lost.
Ex:My profile views previously was 40+.Now its 1.
Any suggestions?(btw my password is complicated enough;-)
I posted a comment on an article that I immediately wanted to edit. (Now, I would just like to delete it!) I can see it on my profile but I see no where to edit or delete it.
Could someone on staff please help me with this? You are welcome to delete both my comments. I flagged them using the "Report Content" button but that was the only thing I could see to do. Thanks.
Comment sections on most sites allow you to review your post one more time before you commit to it. I was expecting that here so I had not read my comment through - but BAM!! - it went right in! (In fact I am currently editing this post using the preview option here on this blog.) My suggestion is that you add a preview option to your comment section.
I agree with the previous poster that you need a Help or Contact section. It is frustrating to have to publicly post on a blog when we are having a problem with your site.
I don't know if my experience with the new FC beta site is uniquely problematic, or if others are having the same problems, but I'm finding it frustrating enough that I can't see myself engaging much - if at all - with the community. I belong to a few social networks, run a couple of multi-blog sites, have a conference site that has a social networking component, and so on, so I'm not a newbie. On the other hand, I'm willing to concded if I've overlooked something obvious.
Problem 1: I want to log in but can't remember my password, but in the process of trying to retrieve my password, I'm asked to follow a link and reset it but first must enter my OLD password. Which I don't know. So once I close out this session, I may never get back in, because ...
Problem 2: I can't find a Help/Contact Support button anywhere. I found this feedback link, but am not so sure that this is the right forum for such a specific request. I know that logins are one of the trickiest parts of user experience, but really - now that all sites have them, you'd think everyone had gotten it down by now?
Problem 3: When following the link to reset my password, a "Resest Password" screen should have been created, instead of sending the user to a screen, to have to scan the many options to figure out where the password reset is hidden. My intuitive sense was to look where the Search/Advanced Search was, and it was after some serious cognitive processing and snippy consultation with spouse that I realized it was under "Settings" - only to discover that it wouldn't work for me.
So the bottom line, even if I remind myself to take the time to use a "pull" model instead of a "push" model to get information (I also can't get the blog posts to integrate with my other regular Google Reader feeds but that's another issue), I probably couldn't get in to participate.
Rahel Anne Bailie
FastTalk topics are "access denied"
if they are about 2 days or more old...so it seems.
I understand that you dont want old ones modified after a certain point,
but hopefully you make them viewable.
In this case I was trying to see what all
was said about Web 3.0
Thamks,
ME
I'd like to get the FC home page RSS into iGoogle, but don't seem to be able to.
Pasting http://www.fastcompany.com/fc-rss/rss/feeds/17016 into the Add Content by URL box there comes up with a 'not found'. Clicking the Add Feed button on the page results in a message saying it's been added to my feed reader... hmmm... 'My' feed reader is igoogle and it ain't there.
Blog on content list doesnt show updates.
It DOES show when a new posting is there.
It DOES NOT show updated version if on the showing posts
changes. (The version on MyFastCo page has the old version still)
*** Also, i am posting to the Group here...because
since I am a member of the testers, I dont get the normal
feedback screen
Now that the site is out of beta, we've converted this group as a place for site advisors and testers. We hope you'll continue to participate. We have been reviewing your suggestions and acting on many of them. If you haven't seen your fix make it to the site yet, it may be because our developers haven't yet gotten to it. They've literally worked all through the night several days in a row. We'll be rolling out new waves of changes every 48 hours or so. Many thanks, Ed Sussman, FastCompany.com
On behalf of the many Irish members whose names include apostrophes, I'm wondering what can be done to fix how the website handles this character.
Imagine my horror to see the message, 'Welcome back Peter O'Donnell' - can't something be done about that?
True, it may be an artifact of the old system - perhaps even my original sign-up - but I can't imagine I'm the only person affected by this problem. I also realize that, if VISA corp haven't figured out how to put apostrophes on credit cards, then you aren't alone in being stumped by the dreaded character.
Hoping,
Peter O'Donnell
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