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Design is an essential element of functionality. I had to click on one small link at the top of the navigation bar to get to the most important information: Users. Then I had to scroll through a list of people, pulling out various tags and keywords that might have been interesting to me. I gave up finding what I was looking for, but not before clicking on 'Search' at the top. The search wasn't an autocomplete field,…
Thanks for your feedback! We'll definitely make some changes soon. >For this site, I could have used a sortable and searchable data table that let me both browse, search, and communicate on one page. Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean sort of personalized dashboard? > I gave up finding what I was looking for Our plan is that: you say us what are you looking for and we take care of everything else. After we…
> Can you please elaborate on this? Do you mean sort of personalized dashboard?
No... I just want a way to filter people quickly by 'wants to learn' and 'wants to teach'. At first, I don't really care about the details of the person except for that info. So a table that can be filtered with some javascript would be great. Especially if you used something like chosen: http://harvesthq.github.io/chosen. That way, I can both see all the options as well as get autocomplete.
The idea is just that I want to know right away whether or not there is someone who I can help, and someone who can help me. Otherwise, it's a waste of time for me to register. It's like a dating site... I'm not going to register if there's no one available, in the hopes that the site will become popular later.