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Ya'll are AMAZING with your insta-answers. Here is a way we can visualize your preferences!!!
You may choose up to three options!
Don't see your cool feature idea listed here? Suggest it in the Comments of this post!
Gratefully,
Meg
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Come on, guys! We need that dating service! :P
Meg, I love the fact that you are asking for our input on this!
<3
I love cute overload and I'm so greatful to you for brightening my days!
yay for the poll!
I think avatars would be nice :-)
Dating service FOR ANIMALS, I mean!
I don't want to see ads for t-shirts, I don't want to see virtual pets or pet stories and I don't want to see cute stuffed animals, I just want to see real, cute animals and lots of them. Don't mess up a really good thing!!!
Please, no celebrity stuff. Lack of that is a big part of the draw.
Maybe simple is good; think of your site as a work of art, knowing when to cease tinkering.
Your best feature, with which you will continue to grow..?..the cute pictures and the mindboggling captions and remarks. Makes me happy.
A dating service isn't entirely a goofy idea. Cuteness could become a hot topic of conversation, right up there with politics and religion. Like which do you prefer: eye capsules or chub? and if he says eye capsules the date is SO over.
Constance said: "Meg, I love the fact that you are asking for our input on this!"
Agreed! It's nice to be able to help make this place even better. Not that I think it needs much; frankly, I LIKE the "bare-bones" look--I come here for the Qte, and that's really all that I care about. Even the comments-the other thing I like about the Site--are just icing on the cake; I think I'd like this place just as much without them.
Also, it's nice to see what options are doing well. I'm surprised the seasonal thing is doing so well; I thought that was just something I cared about. ^_^
Thank you, Meg and Theo, for such an awesome Site! <3
no celebrity crap, PLEASE.
More cats, less racks.
I too think this site is pretty much perfect as is, and wouldn't want to tamper too much. I think the frequency of posts is just perfect, the comments format perfect, etc. I like the idea of improving the submissions process I suppose. Thanks Meg!!
i could care less about paris hilton and her dog that she's never even fed herself.
What are the virtual pets to which you are referring?
I would cry if celebrities had anything to do with this site, and I might not visit as much, then I would cry about that. This site is pretty damn near perfect as it is, and if you really want it to be better, then more posts of the same caliber. Thanks for everything.
Excuse me, but CuteOverload is completely perfect just as it is! The best website evah!!!
I've only posted a couple of times, but I wanted to say how much I love the site and love how you ask for input, Meg.
Technology + cute = perfection.
More merch! Definitely!
I feel terrible that I missed out on the first CO shirt. ;(
CATS IN BOXES!
That is all.
The site is perfect as it is. More posts more often would only enhance its perfection. :D
Since you put in the dating service... I feel that you have to do it. If you advertise something, no matter how sarcastically, you should follow through. :D
Some sort of Flickr-style image feed so I can put Cute Overload into an electric photoframe. Surely this is trivial to add?
For me, the single most important issue is simplifying the page so that it concentrates on the main purpose - CUTE PICTURES! (BTW, thanks for fixing it so that clicking on a link no longer opens it inside a CO frame.) I find the background, and a lot of the ads, distracting - could you use more text-only ads, instead of all the animated pictures? The cute pics alone take a long time to load, and the ad pictures just make that worse - I shudder to think of someone on a dial-up connection trying to view the Cute. I just want to get straight to the main event... *C*U*T*E*!
Pictures of cats giving impudent pups a good slapping. You know it make sense.
wonderful the way it eeeez!!!
Id love to be part of a richer community, if only because Id have more money to afford more cats.
What do you mean, thats not what you meant?
I agree with most of the people above. I love the cute pics and public input. Nothing else is necessary. And puhleese, no celebs.
Bev
Hey, Darlin' -- it ain't broke, no need to fix it. I agree with all of the above (no celebs, &c) This is by the Peeps, for the Peeps, and delights the Peeps. 'Nuff said.
Avatars!
Make the photos of the cutetracker bigger so I can see them!
I agree with most of the above,that the site is great as it is. No merchandise, no celebrities. The only thing is to refrain from the "racks" pictures. Makes it harder to share cuteness with the grandkids.
It's alreay perfect!!!!!
Seconding the "more cats, less racks." Seriously. Adore everything else you do.
please, no celebs. I've cancelled print mags because they keep reporting on them. Don't give a cute rat's a** about them
Like Mary Poppins, this blog is already "practically perfect in every way." More merch would be fun though. And a big NO to avatars and celebs.
Thanks for everything, Meg!
As peeps keeps saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I didn't have a clue what an avatar was until I finally clicked on Meg's link -- I think they'd take up too much space and be distracting. I like identifying peeps by their "names", I don't need pretend pictures to muddle the landscape. And I'm with those that say "less racks". I don't get the cuteness of that category. I'd rather just see the cats or bunnehs by themselves. (now a bearcub, that might be good, but might mean the site was going all to rack and bruin.)
Just do what you're doin' Meg, it's great!
Count me in with everyone who is saying, "Thanks for asking" and, "CO is great as it is".
About the ads. Please keep them wholesome. I understand ads are necessary so they don't bother me, no matter how happy the brunette is about her 'free custom shirt'.
Meg- I think you've got something really great here you can build on. I'll be curious to see what gets the most votes.
If you do decide to move more toward a community website with voting and user submissions like our new site http://www.petafoo.com please feel free to drop me a line if you need anything. Email is feedback[at]petafoo.com.
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http://www.petafoo.com - We Love Animals
I agree, no celebrity animals. I have seen enough of Paris Hilton, already. I love the everyday pets that are posted - just like holding someone's new baby, it makes you re-appreciate the love and companionship of your own little fur baby.
For those of you who reeeeeally want that dating service, try Datemypet.com.
Yet another for no celebrity animals. That would drive me away from CuteOverload, instead of towards it! Thanks for asking us.
Like most folks, I think more posts would be nice **BUT** I think fewer, high-quality posts would be better and would drive more return visitors. I'd rather see fewer pics with more quality (similar to now), than a slew of low-quality, cheesy posts with poor pic quality or taste-questionable content. I am not a prude but I don't like the rack pics cuz it's not the cute, quality, "aaaahhhhh, how cute"-inducing pics that keep me coming back to check out the pics (and posts).
I also do not object to more advertising IF the advertising content is appropriate, tasteful and NON-intrusive (HATE those flash-animated ads that load and obnoxiously dominate the page for what seems like forever before they roll back into a banner ad or a square). I'm a big online shopper and if cute is the point of the website, heck, I wouldn't mind checking out some sponsors if they have cute gear. Just keep them more low-key - thanks!
Thanks for taking a pulse of the your online community, Meg! Love CO and keep the spirit!
...oh yeah...no celebs, puh-leeze....I'm sick of Paris Hilton and her zoo of animals as accessories.
Thanks, again.
We should have a cuteXcute contest and vote who is cutter!!
The site is awesome! Love it
For the record, I kinda like the cats 'n racks. A little sass to go with the treacle. Because of the occasional adulterated swear words, I don't share CO with my nieces & nephews anyway. This is like an "adult" cute-pet site. Kids' whole lives are about cuteness. We adults are the ones who need the artificial infusion.
More ferrets! Everything in life would be better with ferrets.
I really, really feel strongly that I wouldn't want "celebrity pet stories" if it was stories about the pets of celebrities...but I would love to see stories about pets who became celebrities because they saved their people from a fire, pulled some other Lassie maneuver, or did something exceptionally wonderful in any way.
Howbout an RSS feed?
more kitteh toes and PUGS!!!!!!!!!
Please, Meg, PLEASE never let CO become a site where I have to look at Paris Hilton or her ilk 'caring for their pets'. Yes, there are a lot of very good celebrety pet owners with enerable pups etc., but one of the *best* things about this site is that it is free of the 'popular people detritus'. Let's keep the cute common! ;)
i love this site just the way it is. i would suggest a forum but honestly i don't know if this site needs one. commenting on the pictures works pretty good
Don't change a thing!
And, many thanks to you,
Meg! Happy New Year,
everyone! Another year
of Cuteness -- no evil,
no pain, no hatred. Just
sweet, funny, lovely,
Seriously Cute snaps of
the best part of life:
warm fun, good people.