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I think that there should be a short explanation at the end of the sign-up process to explain how to raise your levels.

Good idea! We'll try to make the benefits of levels more clear. We're still adding features that we hope will encourage people to participate.

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I have a suggestion to improve the intro questions based on my experience signing up as a new member.

"How certain are you that no gods exist?"
100% = no god 0% = god exists

This is a false dichotomy because you are asking if something is false or not false and supposing an answer of not false is equal to true. A person who says they are 0% certain no gods exist are not saying that god does exist. The parameters require a person to select an answer that is not necessarily true, which may be alienating.

Just my two cents.

Thanks for putting this community together, glad to be a member!

Yes, I can see that it could be considered a trick question to purists. We were just trying to come up with a measurement of the conviction that a god exists or not. Do you have a suggestion that could make it more clear and not be off-putting?

"How certain are you that there are no gods" is what my comment should have said, I apologize for misquoting.

Thanks - we changed it 🙂

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  1. Whe a user has more than one pic, give the option to "choose" which one is their profile pic, and not just use the last one uploaded
  2. Add more participation incentives for the different levels
  3. Let users actually add an image to their post
  4. Let users see messages (in messenger) that they've sent and received
  5. Add functionality to the search feature
  6. Let a user preview their post before it goes live
  1. good catch... we should have a little icon for "set as primary"
  2. Do you have some ideas for those? We are thinking to give higher levels the ability to curate content.
  3. oh is that broken? we'll check!
  4. we fixed a bug TODAY where some of the messages were not saved/sent. Seems to work much better now. If you think you sent a message but don't see it now when you go back to the conversation, please resend it.
  5. which options would you like?
  6. hmmm... we had that option but some people forgot to submit it. Perhaps we can make it an optional setting.
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I would recommend a date system for posts. I'm new and answering some of these questions but I have no idea how old they are. Is the question from a month ago? Am I replying to someone's comment from last week? I'm not sure. While it is not always crucial to answer the newest questions, or wrong to answer old questions, it does help to know if a thread is dead or not.

The good news is that the site is only about 2 weeks old so all the messages are very current. We are thinking to put dates on the posts or even limit new members (e.g., lower levels) to only recent posts so it feels less overwhelming. Just ideas.

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Quick question. How do I rotate a picture? The reason for my question may be self-evident. 🙂 I've tried rotating on my PC, so it's "wrong," then uploading, but it's still sideways.

Thanks for asking! We're working on that right now and hope to have a "Rotate" icon on the photos soon. Also, we'll have a way for you to select which uploaded photo will be your primary photo.

I just asked this ignore my last post.

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I can't reply to comment . not sure if it because the person level is higher if so that the problem

Hmmm, maybe it was a bug. You should be able to reply to any comment. Did you see an error? Using a computer or phone? Thanks for the report.

Nope no errors

Wow it allowed me to post let me check out othet ones

Cool... glad to hear! 🙂

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I think it would be great if there was a place for us to share our art or our artistic projects with one another. I would also be interested in knowing that I would not be shut down or censored merely because I was posting "offensive content". As an artist there has to be some freedom to push boundaries. I do not like the idea of a painting that I spent 40 hours on being taken down because somebody took a ten second look at it and decided it was indecent. Thank you

We are fairly open to art in photo uploads (I enjoy painting too). Post a few and let's see what happened.

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It would be cool if there was a bit of an arts and entertainment section. I know there are plenty of entertainers who are atheist, and some actually base their creation on atheism. I'd love to see what other atheists create.

Good idea - we hope to have a video section with posts by members and pros.

Coo... I like sharing my stuff too. I have noted that a lot of atheist themed music is most often metal. I'm hoping to expand options. Not a big fan of metal, just not really my style.

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I would love if the categories could be tweaked a bit. In place of Random & Silly, I'd have a Just for Fun category, which could include 'getting to know you' type quiz questions and other randomness. We need a category for books, music and movies, one unambiguously separate from the philosophy oriented categories. Really Life and Meaning seems to be as much a philosophy category heading as Religion and Spirituality. If this site is too focused, in every category, on rehashing basic theosophical and philosophical questions, folks who just want to hang out with like-minded people will just go back to facebook. For the most part, people joining a site called agnostic.com are already self-selected to be agnostic or atheist, and if we were Baptists or all Jewish, sure there'd be some theological discussion, some ego stroking, etc., but there'd also be a lot of just general chatting about topics having nothing to do with God, gods, or churches.
And, it would be great if there was a visual indicator on or around our profile pictures or something that would indicate whether we are or are not interested in finding dates. Many women I know would be wary of joining a site like this for fear of being pestered by too many lonely, single men. Right now it is not terribly easy for users to see at a glance whether such attention would be welcome. I, for instance, am NOT looking for a date, and any poor men who miss that detail may find I am less friendly than I ought to be. If folks like me had a red border around our profile pics, or something obvious like that, anyone could see that we are just here for friendly companionship, not dating, and they could direct their romantic attentions where they might be less frostily received.

Awesome ideas! I've been thinking about 2 modes for the site dating and forum. Feedback I'm getting from some dating/personals people is that it's too forum-heavy now. I like your idea of a "I'm open to dating" icon on the small photos. I'll try some tweaks to the categories too 🙂

Ok, I added "Movies, Movies & Books" and added "Fun" to "Silly & Random" (a compromise).

That works for me, thanks. 🙂 Yeah, I suspect that for the folks who want a dating site, the conversations so far would be frustrating. Most women I know (and myself) would rather meet people and chat, and if we meet someone who becomes a romantic partner later, that's cool but not the priority for joining or participating in a site like this. It will be interesting to see how the dating site/social site conundrum works out over time here.

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scrolling through 'next page' of posts is almost unbearable.. using mozilla firefox/linux

Yah, it's a bit old school... we plan to do "infinite scrolling" in the next few weeks. Good suggestion, thanks!

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It would be better if you allowed people to choose which default picture to use. Trans woman would not like a default man to show up.

Of course, there are trans people who wouldn't like to have to decide between the two. And are cis people who prefer not to identify what gender/sex they are. So maybe you could include a "not identifying" category with an ungendered default icon.

I realize that there are limits to what you can do with program as written.

Yes, good points. We are slowly adding better support for our trans/other members... especially as we roll out better dating features. Do you (or others) have a suggestion what a "trans" icon would like? We could simply do a 50% filter of each but that might seem offensive... or perhaps a slider to choose?

A trans man would usually like the default man picture. A trans woman would usually like the default woman picture. For a non-binary trans person, or a person who doesn't it to be known, I would do a highly simplified picture (google "person icon" ) that doesn't depict any gender... just a head on a body.

But that's me being simple. Other people might want more options.

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Being able to rotate picks would be good. Also an easy way to find people that live near you, some sort of a distance search.

Yes! We're working on fixing the rotation bugs in photo uploads and hope to have the feature upgraded in the next couple of days. For distance search, you can sort by "Nearby" (perhaps we should change that to "Distance". Typically, with distance searches, people need to also have "Logged in since X"... but since we're only live for a month or so, it's moot for now. Thanks for the feedback!

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I'd like to know what the points are for

I know that part of it has to do with making real people easily distinguishable from bots and predators. My understanding is that the very lowest level(s?) can't initiate contact with other members, and the first few posts are screened by the Admin. Having once created a point system for that purpose, the Admin may have decided to elaborate on it for other reasons. He or she recently said something about periodic prizes, including something in the near future.

@vertrauen - yes, that's correct. Hopefully, members don't get too caught up about it. We give some more access to members with higher levels and hopefully will have some way to send agnostic-themed gifts to active members.

That sounds fun!!

im new on here so illfigure it out! maybe lol but im sure digging you chick!????

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I was wondering how long it takes for uploaded posts of things to be viewed by everyone. I posted a couple things, and they never showed up 😟 am I doing something wrong? I also was wondering if you have any way to set up chat rooms.. where perhaps by topic or whatever, could take place. Just a thought.

A new photo upload system is going live today. You should see your photos immediately. We are thinking about chat rooms too ... once we improve the dating features. Chat rooms are also harder to monitor for scammers 😟

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I try to upload a profile picture but my picture doesn't appear. It still has the default image. My photo is in my profile pic library and uploads when I first put it. But as soon as I click to another page it disappears. Am I missing something?

We made a bunch of fixes in the last 24 hours. Should be much more stable now.

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Why no area search, pretty worthless unless you want to just BB post.

You can currently sort by distance. We probably could do a better job of showing that or simply build a "miles/km from zip/city" field. On the list! 🙂

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I'd like understand how the points and levels thing works

Check out the levels page by clicking anywhere you see the word "Level".

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Be honest in all things. If you don't want to be honest, then be silent.

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I have 3 or 4 messages, but when I click on them I just get a spinny wheel... can’t opennor reply. Help??

Thanks for the feedback - we're working on it right now to fix. Your messages are still there...

Should be fixed now - sorry about the inconvenience as we are updating the software daily to add functionality and sometimes have bugs. Now that the site is getting larger, we'll try to be more careful and check site more often during the day.

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Not sure exact what to expect I'm brand new here.

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It's frustrating as a new member that I can't make posts etc, maybe lower the level requirement so people can do more things earlier into joining, some wouldn't stay after realising they're so limited in what they can do initially.

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Well I'm new not sure what it's all about yet, tbh.????????????

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HELP!!! The message function won't work! I am getting messages, repeatedly, and when the conversation reached the bottom of the page, it froze! The sender sees everything fine, but I can see nothing more. The screen won't scroll.

Rebooting my iPhone (6, running iOS 20.3.3) did not fix it.

Zster Level 8 Nov 22, 2017

Ok, I'm looking for an iPhone to test now as it works on android. I'll let you know when I get one.

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Add Nihilist to the list of philosophies to identify with, please.

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Admin,

Just wanted to let you know that older posts seem to be disappearing from the feed. They're clearly still in the system because at the top of the thread the number of comments listed is correct, but the number which actually appears in the thread doesn't match up.

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