Hello,

I suggest a Classified Function; in addition to the basic features of Classified Function, the following features should be added as well:

>Members be able to upload pics of Items to sell

Other Admins can make more suggestions here

Hi Easton.

If there will be other demands we will do it.

i agree this would be a great add on

I agree 100% with you on this brusselsshrek and is a stance I have already taken a number of times. Concentrate and focus on core and superior central functionality with the core product.   

I absolutely agree ... please... ... stay in focus on dating communities ...

Hmmm again have to agree to disagree .... because it doesnt make any sense .... let me try explain my take on social networks and dating .... (dating in the true sense) ....

Social networking - an area for people normally with similar interests, demographics possible and more than likely similar age ... online interaction and communication ....

A Dating site .... a place where single people looking for partners go ... they maybe attracted to a certain niche ... let say they are all fans of Mr Eddie Izzard Esquire ... instantly because of the niche target audience they all have something in common and there is a greater chance of finding a compatible partner .. the job of a dating site ... get em in, hook em up - attend the wedding .. once people have hooked up (if they have chemistry) there is no need for them to remain on the dating site as they have found there perfect partner ....

I agree that there is a convergence of functionality BUT if you are a traditional dating site and you have long standing members surely then you are not actually fullfilling the role of a traditional dating site ... in fact a measure of your success would be the number of members you lose as you have helped them find a match and sole mate ... ??

using dating software to so people can hook up for 'non dating/friendship' purposes it again another thing altogether ....

smutvibes is not a dating site it is a swingers/f*!ck buddie site lets not confuse the two here ... we do not operate dating site we run a swingers site -swingers dont date they errmmm - well you know what they do - lol ....

we choose the use skadate instead of something like ning becuase of a) support   b) ready to go templates   c) great admin functionality    d) focused on vertical marketing with a reasonable agressive revision and release schedule ....

Now if we where coming to the market place today - we would consider wackwall and would more than likely go for that ....

Now the people at Skalfa are reasonable on the ball and is they thought that S/N and Dating where truely one then wackwall would never have been developed ... dunno what do you think ....

anyway hosting a members based selling enviroment surely has massive implications in terms of yours ' the webmaster / owners' liabilty .... what if someone was using the selling tool on your site to covertly sell drugs or something vile like child porn.  You would be deemed partly responsible as you would be providing both the mechanics and environment to help facilitate these sales ....

As owners of sites we are liable for the activity that takes place on it ... allowing members to sell stuff opens up a real can of worms !!!!

Am i totally off base ?  perhaps the uk market is years behind the rest of the world ... in any event we find it hard enough to push sales from our own sister sites - www.feelingsexylingerie.co.uk  via members ... if they can buy and sell there own stuff - why bother with ours and indeed why bother clicking on the all important affiliate banners !!!!

Right time for a coffee and some Zzzzzzzzzzzzz's

Just a small voice in a big marketplace - Paul 

Hello again ....

i) Classifed - paid purchase or not ... I personally would feel that I had a moral obligation to ensure that this was above board - and the point i made about illegal activites stands 100% - TRUST ME ON THAT ONE

ii) I think it depends on your membership base. if the site is free or subscription and mainly if you are dating or 'not' dating

iii) plentyoffish descripes itself as a dating site - but with a reported 3,500,000 i guess it can call and describe itself however it wants ... i would image however the original basis of that company is long gone as its revenue stream would appear to be sponsored advertising. I did however say that i felt that there was a convergence  of functionality and in between your little cloud  and my little cloud there is sure to be some common ground .....

I will put my stall out again - my preference would be for skadate to focus on core functionality all this peripheral stuff just detracts .... it would be nice to see a roadmap from skadate which we could all mull over ...

have a cool weekend ....

Paul 

I think the problem is more fundamental than that; it is one of priorities.  Basically there are other functions which are much more dating related than Classifieds which SkaDate would be better spending their time on. 

I will give two examples:

• Personality profiling (e.g. as on http://Perfectmatch.com http://eHarmony.com http://Chemistry.com and http://True.com).  This is something which is a "modern" innovation to dating websites, and I think if I started a thread suggesting such a thing there would be a whole lot more support from other admins for investment in such a function.  In fact I might just do that... 
• New photos, last access, etc. (e.g. see http://www.chinesekisses.com/statistik.php?l=en).  In fact, a glance at almost any other dating site will give ideas for more dating-specific improvements for SkaDate

I don't know how many developers there are in SkaDate, but I'm pretty sure it's in single figures.  If they are running out of things to implement and think that Classifieds is therefore something which they should do, maybe they should ask here first to see if there are anything else which we think would be more useful for dating websites.

In an ideal world, I'd support whatever feature anybody wants (as long as I can switch it off  ), but with the pretty limited resources which there actually are, I'd be pretty disappointed if SkaDate felt that this was a feature worth implementing.  Sorry Easton!