Well guys, I feel more strongly about CBG 2.0 than I did about 6 months ago, and we've made a lot of headway in recent weeks. Some of the stuff, even the beta-testers haven't seen, since it's behind-the-scenes stuff, but we're getting pretty close to a countdown. I have a few questions that I'd like everyone to answer so that a few important aspects can be tailored towards what the site itself wants to see. Please take some time and answer these questions.
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
That's it. Feel free to add comments off the subject of those 6 questions, but we are in the final stages and just want to know how important these particular issues are with those of you already active on the site.
Cheers!
Also, as a suggestion, if you know of any member-based sites that have really excellently-made User pages (My Account, etc) with good ideas that would be useful to us, please let me know.
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
Front page.
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
Do you mean the Member Profile page? I'm fine with the way it is, can't really think of anything to add there. Favorited threads listing could be useful I guess.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
The front page. You could rename the button if it's causing confusion.
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
I dont even read blogs...
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
Having a place to get news updates if the CBG blows up would be useful, but only if it's hosted in a service that is free for anyone to view (no need to sign up anywhere).
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I doubt I'll ever want to change my user name.
1. Front page. I think it's good to see news and such. I do like the list of newly updated forum threads on the front page of the current version, though, so I'd hope the new version kept that.
2. I don't really look at my account page often enough to care, honestly. Maybe favorited threads or friend lists or an easy way to send/check PMs, but I don't know. The "rating" system we have now seems kind of silly and can probably go.
3. The front page.
4. No, I wouldn't use this.
5. I wouldn't use it. I don't use Twitter or Facebook.
6. I don't find it important. In fact, if we could cut back on the name-changing, it'd be nice. Too often do I see some name posting and I have no clue who it is, because everyone's changed their names again.
1. news is best
2. threads, followed settings/projects, bio
3. front
4. no
5. no
6. Some of us have made permanent shifts it'd be nice to xfer
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
Front Page
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
I would definitely like to see subscribed/favorited threads. The others I don't care so much about though a bio would be useful. Also it would be cool if you could subscribe to certain sections of the wiki and get notices on recent updates. One final thing, in place of the below comment on a blog why not just let users keep a journal that they can access through their account page. Other people viewing their profile could see journal notes.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
Front Page, please front page! :P
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
I don't care about blogging.
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
Not really. I think your guys time would be better spent with other things.
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I love the name changing thing, it adds a sort of uniqueness. Though if you implement it perhaps you could add a mouse hover tag to the users name so someone hovering over it will see their registered name (thus avoiding confusion about who is who).
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
Home page.
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
Favorite threads, threads your watching etc. General Info, (name,email, etc.) Recently posted threads. A bit of room to rant about what you like/dislike etc.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
Front page.
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
I do not think I would use something like that.
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
Nah.
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I've never used it.
I actually find the current version of CBG pretty damn good. Far easier to navigate/use than even WoTc gleemax forums.
1. Home page.
2. I'm going to have to take a while to think about this one, really. I like seeing the recently updated threads, but the ability to favorite/watch threads is very nice. Would one of these features resemble individual lists of stickied threads that each user can separately define?
3. Unless the contents of a "My Account" page are extraordinarily customizable, then a home page. My CBG bookmark is for the main page, for the list of recently-updated threads, the tavern, the list of online members, and the PM notifications.
4. This might be a nice, interesting feature, but for me, it is a very minor concern.
5. I am pretty sure I would never actually use this.
6. My name is not changing.
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
Home Page (which should have a RSS feed like the current one with the newest posts)
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
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3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
Home Page
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
I think this is the most useful potential feature. I think a World-building blog would be better than the Wiki- Especially if the blog posts cross-link.
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
I would not use it. Perhaps someone else might, though?
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I do not like constant name changes.
>>Far easier to navigate/use than even WoTc gleemax forums.
Anything is better than the gleemax forums.
And as I said in an earlier thread- I really like how the CBG currently works- I hope the upgrade continues to pay homage to the forums' already good quality set-up. The CBG's technology is already fairly unique and I think is the best forum I have ever visited.
1. Front Page.
2. I'm not sure. I don't use those kinds of features very often. If I could see a list, I might be able to pick from it, but just sitting here nothing especially important comes to mind.
3. Front Page.
4. It might be interesting. I have limited experience with blogs in general, so I would have to see before I could really judge.
5. I wouldn't use that. If the site is down, I do something else and check back later.
6. I think I've probably made my final name change. It's a cool feature, but it can get a bit confusing and I don't think it would be a tremendous loss overall. Like Phoenix, however, I'd like to be able to register with my current name (which is not my original name).
Well, well, well, looks like the heat death of the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe) and the release of Duke Nukem Forever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever) are going to happen sooner than anyone would have thought (and yes, in that order). :3
Quote from: Ishy2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?[/quote]6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.[/quote]
Name-changes are silly and confusing. There are honestly some times where I have no clue who is who anymore. And not just whilst inebriated.
[blockquote=ISh]1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?[/blockquote]
Home page. Much of what we do is check to see who has done what.
[blockquote=Turtlemon]2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.[/blockquote]
personal bookmarks, Bookmarked threads, messages from other members,
[blockquote=ish]3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?[/blockquote] My account. Sorry to be a contrarian, but based on what you are describing, we will spend more time on our account pages. At least those of us who world-build will.
[blockquote=His Ish]4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?[/blockquote]
yes, I'd propably take advantage. I have a long way to go in Celtricia.
[blockquote=Ish]5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)[/blockquote] Do I seem faddish and desperate? [spoiler=eventually] twitter and facebook are early versions of what will eventually be a more mobile and cutomizable social network. I'll wait for that.[/spoiler]
[blockquote=ISH]6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.[/blockquote] You know, I find it clever when someone changes their name slightly to reflect a mood or an event, as long as you still know who it is.
It annoys the crap out of me when the major namegames go along and suddenly you don't know who they hell you are talking to. So if it means I have to remain Lord Vreeg, sans barolo, coachwhip, or other accoutrment, to ensure the random name hopping is eliminated, then I am all for it.
What else do I want? A fucking spellcheck because of my truly awesome typing skills.
An "out of office" ability would be helpful.
Hope that helped, and I apologize now for being a contrarian and iconoclast.
>>What else do I want? A fucking spellcheck because of my truly awesome typing skills.
An "out of office" ability would be helpful.
Try Firefox- it automatically spellchecks when you type and will give you the little red underlines when something is misspelled.
Quote from: Ishmayl2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?[/quote]6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the
ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.[/quote]
I don't find it useful, I never use it (I happen to like my nick). That being said, I don't see a reason not to have it, but if its too much work, I will not lament its loss.
Whether loging in and/or the home button should direct users to the home page or the profile page depends on what features go where.
The system we have now is pretty good, except that we lack a better way to subscribe to threads and such. You go to the front page and see everything. The profile info doesn't get used 'cause there's not much of use in that section.
But a facebook with a forum approach wouldn't be bad. This would mean a profile page with buddies, subscribed threads, account status, and some sort of news feed (that would inform you of buddy account status changes and changes in subscribed threads and such)... Then a front page with a news feed that shows everything, plus announcements and the tavern as usual. And maybe polls in a place where you don't have to scroll down to see them... and then the forum same as always. All this would be the first three tabs at the top. Probably still "home, profile, forum" rather than profile first.
And name changing is not a big deal for me.
The only way a buddy system would be useful would be if it listed the 5 most recent posts by the buddy- on the front page.
So we have the main feed with new posted-to threads;and then on the sidebar we have collapsible buddy names.
For example:
Steerpike posted in Cadaverous Earth, Goblin, China Mieville Thread as his last 3 posts. I can directly go to my Friend's pages and read his new posts.
that's really the only way I see that being useful.
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There should be a link to the mIRC instructions on the first page and a Java entry into IRC for people who don't download the software- or at least the Chatroom should be more obvious/easy-to-get to for newbies.
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PMing perhaps should be easier than currently. It seems a little clunky... Can't recall my complaints right now, but it just does not seem to operate as it does on other boards.
I'll second that some features are only useful if they come with other features (like buddies and updates from them), and what was said about mIRC.
When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
News, but I think the News page could benefit from a "10 Most Recent Wiki articles" section, in addition to the forum updates.
Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
Maybe I am just a fan of High Fidelity, but "Top 5" lists of things I've done recently are always helpful: forum posts, wiki articles, etc.. Also, being able to tag users or threads to add them to your "feed" would be nice (particularly for the consultant project).
This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
The current paradigm is Home -> My Account. I'd put a "News" link up, if only because it will make things easier for new users (the old users are already addicted and such a simple change will not force us away D;).
Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
Blogs would be neat. If you don't want to dedicate the space, maybe just a more visible hook for Wordpress or Blogger from an account page.
Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
Eh. Would I use it? Probably. It might bring in some new users?
How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I actually dislike the name changing option, but only because I have a bad head for names and get easily confused. >.>
Also, Ish, my previous offer is still on the table as far as help with design/programming. I'm well versed in AJAX/JavaScript (especially w/ Prototype library), Php, MySql, etc..
Ah, another idea-
We can post our own announcements in the news feed- in a twitter-like annoucement zone (like the chatbox) But the announcements stay there until closed by the reader or deleted- newest announcements at top.
The Use of the announcements would be to say announce development on your projects or a new IRC chat or a Q&A. hopefully it will reduce the workload on Ish, who won't have to be bothered to make his own announcements when new things develop.
The problem with that is a potential for abuse/misuse- but we are a small enough community, I think, that anyone who uses the "announcements" to chat instead of to announce will be shamed.
(Note : this is in addition to the current chatbox).
I had my own interesting idea involving a bot posting to the tavern every hour with something along the lines of "Welcome to the CBG, while you're here why not check out (setting) by (name)" with both setting and name linking to their respective spots. Would be a cool way to bring new members in for reviews (and remind old members to check out settings they haven't yet).
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
Hmm, I would probably prefer the latest updated forum posts are found; after all, isn't that and posting what we're here for :)
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
Favorite threads, own setting links, general bio, sig, contact information.
Or, perhaps even better, a list of newly updated forum posts on my account page? Sort of meld front page and
user page together somehow.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
Probably front page. Only seems you use My Account to update your sig
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
Not really important to me; I'm busy as is. Or feel busy anyway.
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
Wouldn't mind, but not something I particularly want.
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I'll live, I'm quite happy with my name right now :)
I'm not always around so my thoughts probably don't mean much but here it goes:
1 - When logging off and then logging back onto the site, would you rather be automatically forwarded to the last page you were viewing (whether it be a forum thread, a particular campaign setting, etc), to your own personal account page, or to the site's front page where news, updated forum posts, etc are displayed?
If I'm not logged in, I'm in a forum thread, and then I choose to log in from there to comment, I want to go to that thread. Other than that, I don't really have a preference.
2 - Speaking of your own personal account page, what are the 5 most useful things you would like to see on it? Examples are: "Favorited" threads, buddy lists, "Account statuses" (ala facebook), general bio, etc, etc. Not limited to those, just let me know what a good "My Account" page looks like to you.
Shortcuts to your own things would be nice. I really like how the site is now with the most recently active threads and the tavern always right there when I log in.
3 - This question seems unimportant, but we've found a lot of dissenting theories on the subject. When clicking on a "Home" button, would you rather be taken to your "My Account" page, or the front page?
I never even thought about that. I suppose something like the home page now, where I can see recent activity. On 2.0 I don't know if my account page or the front page would be more like that.
4 - Do any of you care about having the ability to post blogs? One of the new features we have will actually somewhat accomplish blogs as it is, but do any of you really care about being able to post blogs about your day-to-day life (or world-building life), or is it pretty unimportant?
It would be cool, though I'm sure it wouldn't get a lot of use. I'd say it is unimportant but not pointless or bad.
5 - Slightly off subject, but still useful, would you find it useful (and/or interesting) for the CBG to have a special twitter and facebook account to allow for outside updates (as well as for the rare instance when the site is down and people may want to know what's going on?)
I would fan a Facebook page but I despise Twitter. Neither seem too important unless updates start happening more often, though.
6 - How important do you find the name-changing option on this site? One of the only aspects of drupal we've found that's not as good as e107 (in fact, the ONLY aspect) is that it is not easily customizable to allow people to change their display names. You can change your user names, but I don't want to get into the kinds of messes that can be involved with that.
I love having the ability to change names, even though it could possibly be confusing to some. If we're not going to be able to do that in the future I wouldn't like it but it wouldn't chase me away, either. I like the idea of being able to check the user name but change display names. If we can't change names on 2.0, would there be a way for me to be Ninja D! on there instead of my login name?
1.) I'm tempted to say the last page you visited, but I'll go with the account page. See my next answer for further explanation.
2.) If you can manage it, it might be useful to show the last page visited, here. Since you said five things though, I'll list five in no particular order:
* Last page(s) visited
* Threads I've created
* Favorite threads
* What exactly would the buddy list do?
* Recent Changes to favorite Wiki pages
3.) Probably the front page, but that's if the login page is the user account. If the login goes to the front page, then I think Home should be the user account.
4.) I wouldn't use it much (if at all), but I say go for it. There seems to be users that would take advantage of this, so you might as well go for it. The only possible problem I can see with it is disk space.
5.) I don't have a Facebook and I don't check Twitters, so it might be pointless as far as I'm personally concerned. Would it be interesting? maybe, I don't know. I'm not pushing for it, but I'm not pushing against it, either.
6.) I'm definitely in the "for" category on this one. I do like the hover idea, though.
I've been doing some minor tinkering around with Drupal lately, and while I'm sure you already have much more experienced and talented developers (Brainface, etc.) on this, I'd be willing to offer some input. I might actually end up asking for input :p