Hi Paolo, Yes, I have also tried premium and think the who is reading what is the best aspect of that service. I agree with your point about the user having control of his/her own “broadcast” vs “privacy” settings

Ha! No, we’re in NYC too. I think it’s the UTC settings on WordPress. Will investigate…

YES! We have this on our road map for the next six months (and we’re really excited about its potential). Thanks for the feedback!
P.S. For now, you could always send the author a direct message, or start a discussion thread in a group.

It’s true, the display of CORE items on the personal profiles is currently puzzling. In fact, even a little space between each item would be an improvement, as currently it all looks like like an indistinct mass of hyperlinks.

This is an excellent proposal! By the way, it wouldn’t be bad to introduce a “Like” function in Group Discussions like this. While I didn’t have much to add in substantial terms to Christopher Long’s proposal, I did want to express my support: a Facebook-style “Like” would serve the purpose!

Colin, I think your analysis is very accurate: one of the many problems with Academia.edu is the lack of discussion and interaction.

I also would like to have some enhanced Analytics on HC, although I also think we should undertake a reflection on the best balance between each one’s right to privacy and the undeniable utility of data on the…[Read more]

Hi @sohnyrin,

Have just confirmed that this is indeed a bug. Thank you for letting us know! We’ll investigate ASAP.

Best,

Nicky

That was simple, not sure why I missed it.. thanks ! 🙂

Émilie,

In the buttons at the top of the group’s page, you should see a “Send Invites” button. If you don’t, it’s possible that the group’s admin has turned off the ability for other members to invite people. If that’s the case, you could either message them or use the invitation button on the hcommons-staging.org homepage and edit the text of…[Read more]

Nicky,

Is there any functionality which allows upload of a gallery of images to a group (e.g. maps, photographs, engravings)?

Not urgent.

Best regards, Colin

Thanks Nicky,

Glad you are looking at facets.

The alphabetical sort option still means then paging through lots of HTML pages. An alphabetical facet would have one page with 24 buttons, each with an ascending letter, which would then go to all “A” names, all “B” names etc.

Best regards, Colin

Thanks Nicky for your quick reply.

I have gone to my Twitter followership and am tweeting open invitations, plus using an internal mailing list to send ten invites at a time.

Best regards, Colin

Hi there,

Unfortunately some of what you’re asking for here would require Academia.edu to have an API that we could interface with, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

We’ll look into the various options for importing contacts from social media sites, but again that is probably going to require those sites to be open to us interacting with…[Read more]

I agree. Member search is cumbersome at the moment. Simple improvements, such as faceted search by A-Z and by geography would help, e.g. a single page with links to all members in US, in England, in X…; a single page with listing of A-Z.

It would also be very useful to be able to invite all followers on Academia.edu to join Humanities…[Read more]