While Google's come up with a very neat way to gather feedback, I'd like a public repository that lets us put feature requests / complaints to a vote and figure what the gripes-in-chief are.
Needed: A multi-select that lets me decide what Circles serve as default sources for my Stream.
tl;dr To let me cut out the noise without the fear of missing out.
Why: My "Following" Stream is essentially a Twitter echo chamber, and most of the folks that post here are really prolific. This drowns out any posts from friends & family, and I have to make an explicit click to view each of these streams. For instance, right now, Robert Scoble is hogging most my Stream real estate.
I'd like to select "Friends" + "Family" + "Acquaintances" as the default sources for my Stream. I don't mind clicking on the "Following" filter to peruse this specific Stream every now and then, just like I dip into Twitter. I don't want these posts, however, to dominate my default Stream. And I don't want to have to delete my "Following" Circle to make this happen.
It would be nice to be able to set relative ratios for how often posts from different circles show up, to result in varying frequency of the top or recent posts from each circle.
It would be quite easy to do UI-wise, you can already select either "Stream" for the whole thing or an individual Circle. Just let us click on multiple Circles at once.
Then add a setting somewhere to multi-select your default stream Circles.
Some of the other things i'd like to see (or should I split this into a separate post?)...
- Make Sparks work more like reader. Sparks has HUGE potential but right now I have no idea how it pulls content and from what sources. It doesn't seem to update much though. Let us do an initial search for content for the keyword, but then also add RSS feeds to each keyword so it can be our one-stop-shop for perusing new content each day (both from the RSS feeds we added, and from the default Spark query engine). Format it a bit more like Reader too, title + expandable box for content.
- Bring in our Buzz posts as "Public" posts on Plus. What's going to happen to Buzz anyway? I really liked it, but surely it's deprecated now with public Plus posts?
I'm not quite sure how high priority that should be, however. Maybe some sort of re-launch or re-purposing of Buzz would be in order after some time.
Also, and maybe this is an isolated case to me, but I haven't been able to import my Yahoo contacts. Every try just tells me that there was an error, and asks me to Retry.