Generally speaking, I love the new design changes. Faster, better, and easier to navigate. But then last week you did some tweaking - which you mentioned in a recent newsletter.

Because the squeaky wheel often gets the grease, and those of us who are content tend not to write, at least once good feature was made worse.

When I scoop an item from my browser, and get the popup window, I often have to resize and reposition the embedded graphics. With the new design, you had made that easy by having all the graphic edit buttons readily available. Now I have to click a button that is harder to find, in order to bring up those buttons.

I think you should have left this alone - it really worked well before this last bit of tweaking.

Thanks!!

Are scores absolutely necessary? I carefully scoop every day, thoughtfully edit my scoops, share them on FB (and sometimes Twitter), and never got above 92. since the new format came out I've dropped to 88. On the one hand I don't care, but I dislike somebody else having the authority to assign a value to the worth of my topic. I envision people looking at my topic and saying, "oh, he made a B" when in fact I have the largest, most carefully curated site on the Internet devoted to my topic. I'm sure part of this is leftover trauma from my childhood school days, but it still feels judgmental.

Hello,
I've been scoopin' for over a year and wanted to say that many of your new product changes are good and more efficient. I do prefer the previous daily message with traffic activity (and small graph of visitors). Your new daily messages look more like you want me to follow other topics. I am already on Scoop and can follow as many as I want. Market to new people all the more and not to existing curators. We know your system, content and value. Also, do you promote certain topics and try to drive traffic to them? Doing any PPC on keywords to drive traffic to blogs? Driving new eyes to interesting and updated content is valuable.
Thanks and happy holidays,
Sandra Sick
Lisbon, Portugal

At the moment the only option is to "date" a post today, or in the future. While this works in the context of "scooping", it falls apart when you try to place context on content by "when".

Let me explain - I have on topic where I am presenting content concerning the United Nations Millenium Development Goals.
This is an initiative that has continued for many years now, working up to a deadline of 2015.

No problem finding material, but I need to place the historical material in context - last week, last month, last year.

Ideally I would love a choice - a check box that says "use original publication date", but would settle on manually being able to choose backwards in the calendar.

We are not all operating in the "scoop" context.

I sent this email to Support by accident initially.

Why not send me emails telling me I have a certain number of posts to curate on my account instead of sending me generic "Discover New Topics". I don't want to get the same email constantly. It's email blindness, get's unsubscribes for you, and is irrelevant, especially when it's the same email every single day. Currently when I click your email of "Discover New Topics" I get sent to your site, I then have to log in (frustration), and then I have to click to find my topic to go and curate it, (It's totally cumbersome for any person who is not websavvy).

Step 1. Make the website flow with a targeted email telling them to CURATE THEIR CONTENT; SUBJECT LINE: YOU HAVE 9 POSTS TO CURATE ON MEDITATION.

Step 2. Send them to their account CURATED PAGE without having to login or at least they'll see their page and the posts they have to curate and then they will login.

Step 3. Send an occasional email to create new TOPICS. Right now you're sending emails everyday for me to Discover New Topics and it's rather annoying.

The question is would you rather real relevant user engagement (People curating content) or do you want to send emails everyday hoping for clickthru's to your site and leaving other people to know what to do. People need to be told what to do which is "Curate Your Content" and not come to our website and "Discover New Topics".

Conversions and User Engagement

I'm only writing this because I liked your companies concept but I got frustrated, I hate companies that send me the same cookie cutter emails everyday.

Scoop.it! has really made a big difference to us at www.manufacturingstories.com . We are using the business class with branding..

I like the new format but I have a few comments:

1) If you magnify your browser page the scoop.it entry page enlarges with it. However the content of the Scoop.it page does not scroll vertically so you can not access the information at the bottom. (see system config in #2)

2) I'm running a MacBook Pro Retina 10.8.2, Firefox 17.0.1 One problem I'm having is that the Scoop.it entry screen does not employ the macs spell checking capabilities and does not have its own spell checker. As a curator I take spelling very seriously and mine is not great.

3) I like the fact that you added the section where the curator and add their take on the scoop. One thing that is lost now is that there are no formatting tools in the copy area where the story info is mapped over. I liked being able to bold and enlarge the first few key words of the mapped over text. It made the scoop look more professional.