Is it normal website ideas.

My Idea #1:

Give the search bar more attention!

I think it'd be good to move it underneath the main logo on the front page - give it a sort of Google prominence. People wondering about something will be encouraged to use it first before posting a question.

Related posts will automatically appear somewhere alongside the search bar (rather than redirecting to another page) as they do when you are submitting a post.

Advantages = Fewer repeat posts & more activity on older posts (instead of an ever expanding archive of dead posts).

Your idea already sounds like a feature that is available on email accounts.

http://isitnormal.com/poll/what-feature-should-we-add-to-iin-next-106492/

^Here is the good link. Sorry about that bad one in the options.

There was an idea floating around once about having an IIN groups feature, and TheManagement made a thread about it which is here http://isitnormal.com/poll/groups-feature-for-iin-108134/ I shot down the idea with reckless abandon at the time, but I'm not so heavily against the principle of it now (although there were big problems with key details of it). If it was done properly it could be interesting. This isn't a vote of support for the feature or anything, in case anyone gets that impression (I think as a community IIN ain't broke, so, therefore, don't fix it :P).

I like your "save as a draft" idea. That would be useful if I needed to write something long or lost my train of thought. Currently I save drafts in a Word document, but not having to leave the site would be a nice convenience.

Disthing's idea is good too, although I don't mind some repeating questions. It's nice to have a good flow of interesting topics come up even if they'rn't new ones, but there are some people who would get more, better answers from using the search bar. Having less old questions might stimulate people to come up with exciting new questions which we wouldn't have had otherwise.

I'll come back if I think of any good ideas, but at the moment I've managed to write 3 paragraphs without actually getting stuck into the question so I'd better just stop typing :P

Your link sent me to a post called "Is it normal to enjoy being hurt?" :S Haha.

You already know that I like your idea, and I think it would come in handy. Also! I'm assuming I know who you are, but you know how you brought up that the little arrows at the top right corner do the same thing as the "Next" button? In that they both send you to another post. Well, with the "Next" button (let's say you've pressed "Next" 20 times and ended up on all those different posts) if you press the back button you go to the previous post, whereas with those two little arrows you go back to the home page (assuming that you were initially at the home page and then clicked the arrows about 20 times)! Did that make any sense:P? I feel pretty sad for knowing this:(.

As for the ideas, I think I had one, but I've forgotten it. I like the idea of having a search bar for your own comments, although that's probably pointless to most people.

I can see the value in this but I fear it would create more elaborate trolls.