Baby Wordie! Congratulations to you & kad--and may you someday get a full night's rest again. :-)

Congratulations on the baby John! But..

Why do you hate freedom?

;-)

See also 凛然, of course. :-)

For the love of Wordie, man, I do hope you add a New Parents Word List as soon as you can prop your eyelids open. So we can live vicariously. :)

Thanks c_b! Yep, we've got a beautiful new sesquipedalian in the house. Funny to discover that all those jokes about new parents never sleeping weren't jokes at all :-)

Congrats on the new addition to the Wordie family, John. I hope you got that little tyke a Wordie onesie!

thanks for the fix, Jon!

Entertainment center really is an awful word; it evokes naugahide.

-Julie

Glad you liked the William F. Buckly list, and thanks for the "et al" note.

So all our words are belong to us? ;->

Usufruct. I love that word.

Thanks! Yes, I'm chatty, but kind of a slow lister.

All words belong to us all, right? Listing them is a form of usufruct. So everything's cool as long as we don't damage them. You break it, you buy it!

Congrats! Funny--I think of ALL Wordie words as belonging to John in some way. ;-)

Congratulations on reaching 1000 words John!

Hi, John; thanks for the welcome and the comment! Glad you like the list and my citations; I hope to be able to provide some sort of reference like that for all new terms I add. Thanks for a great site!

How is it that every time I go to list a new word that isn't on any other list 'Nobody' is listing it already?

There are sticks and carrots: Misbehavior earns demerits.

Bonus points redeemable for egg cubers.

Geez. Who knew it was so complicated? And here I've just been blithely typing.

Actually, I think the best way to navigate around the imaginary garden is to transform to polar coordinates and take the polar express. Then redeem the bonus points at Santa's workshop in the usual manner.

The bonus points are scored with imaginary numbers, so if you make a comment that three people reply to, your score is 1 + 3i. Your points can be redeemed in the imaginary garden (the one with real toads in it).

To reach the imaginary garden, multiply yourself by i (which is easier to do in Wordie since you are lower case here). The problem will be how to get back out of the garden with your merchandise.

Well, I suppose the real question is not so much the existence of bonus points, but rather "Will we able to redeem our bonus points for valuable gifts from the catalog?"

I live in hope.

According to John there are bonus points (McGrath 2008), and who are we to doubt it?

References: McGrath, J. 2008. 'John' < http://wordie.org/people/profile/John > (retrieved 27/1/2008)

(This probably doesn't get any bonus points.)

I think I've got it!

I notice that I've logged 50 comments and I've just popped up on citation score with 50.

So anything in the comment box counts as a citation?

Have I got it?

Ta.

You mean there are BONUS POINTS!!!????

Gangerh, the short answer is that it doesn't. At some point I may add a checkbox so you can differentiate lexicographical info from social info, if you want, but in practice they're often the same thing. If I say "as Yogi Berra said, '90% of the game is half mental," that's kind of sort of a citation, but also just chit-chat.

You get bonus points for being smart and funny, but basically you can use Wordie for whatever you want, as long as you're not a jerk about it.

Thanks for that, John.

So a citation is a scribbling that demonstrates the word in action?

How does wordie recognise a citation against a comment?

Am deducing that you're the one to ask. What, please, is a citation? How does it work. Am probably being a bit thick here but have spent quite a few seconds pursuing the concept on the site to no avail.

Is it an insider feayture? Or feature even.

Thanks mol... yes, those are the options. Misspellings can be removed from lists, but not from the system as whole. Words, even misspelled words, are forever. And a girl's best friend.

Not to worry, Treeseed. Chupah is a variant spelling, not a misspelling. It gets one third as many Google hits as chuppah. In Hebrew it has only one פ.

For a true misspelling, there are a couple of Wordie traditions: ghost it (i.e., delist, but it remains in the Wordie lexicon), adding a "misspelling" tag if desired, or, convert it into a madeupical word by making up a definition.

Hey John,
The word "chupah" that I added this morning is not spelled correctly...your spelling "chuppah" is correct and I want to know if the one I put in can be removed and if so how? Sorry...I have spelled it this way all my life...but I never knew it was incorrect until you put your word up.

I see Wordie now has over 6000 users. Congratulations, John!

Re: Diesel. Thank you!

I have just published a blog presenting wordie. http://marielinder.blogspot.com/2007/12/wordieorg.html

I'm too lazy to shoot off an e-mail, but I thought you'd might want to check out this list of the top 60 Japanese buzzwords (maybe for Errata).

John: the search function on the 'past comments' page works fine, but the search box on the 'result of search' page won't search, i.e., yields only a negative result regardless of the input word. You've got to return to the original 'past comments' page and enter the new search there. Is that the way you set it up?

oh! and one more thing, re what mollusque mentioned: in Firefox you can also navigate your tabs with ctrl-page up and ctrl-page down -- page up moves you to the left through your open tabs, and page down to the right.

reesetee, I don't know when I started saying holy carp but it was probably around the same time I started saying oh my dog.

A bit late on it, but new window/new tab/&c makes no nevermind to me, I have my browser so rigged that links do what I want them to no matter what you code. :D I think this may really a preference issue, not a practicality issue?

@seanahan, feasibility: high. Off the top of my head I can't think of any obvious impediments. In the db and underlying code, both tags and comments both have the plumbing in place so they can be connected to anything, lists and tags included.

Oh, good. I was wondering what I was going to do later tonight, when we get back from the new Ang Lee movie.

I can see I'm outnumbered, and I'll step down gracefully(?). *mutters something about democracy sucking* But mollusque's trick is duly noted, and I should mention that if right-clicking "normal" links and choosing "open link in new tab" is too much trouble, you can middle-click links to get a new tab instead. It takes exactly as much time as a regular left-click. If you don't have a middle button, your scroll wheel should work (it clicks, too).

Hey John, what's the feasibility of tags on lists, and comments on tag pages? These are very minor feature requests, but if they are easy to do, that would be awesome.

I prefer links to open in a new window or tab. I sometimes have several windows open at once in Wordie, since I get sidetracked while writing one comment and start on another before I forget it.

By the way, alt-tab rotates among windows and ctrl-tab rotates among tabs.

I also prefer new tabs, but I don't mind right-clicking to get them. Uselessness has a good point.

I see your point, uselessness. I always open a new tab (or new window--we're still forced to use Explorer 6.0 at work) anyway, though. I like to work with a gazillion tabs/windows open, so I'll go with the general consensus.

Colleen, you might be my friend in disguise--"holy carp" is one of her favorite exclamations. ;-)

Thanks, John, for adding OneLook!

Tabs, please. And I second colleen's piscatory exclamation. I like the shiny new features.

Ok, just replaced MW with OneLook (it's the fourth icon from the left). Still listening if anyone else wants to chime in about links opening in new tabs vs. in situ.

I know you didn't want me to chime in again, but I'm gonna. ;-) chained_bear mentions the ability to right-click a link to open in a new tab... but there is no ability to right-click a link and open it in *this* tab. In other words, if the link is hard-coded to do that, there's no way to force it not to, while the opposite is possible. Food for thought, anyway.

I am strongly in favor of new tabs. I wouldn't click on them otherwise; I'd right-click and tell it to open a new tab. Which is annoying--I like that it opens new tabs.

I share sionnach's disgruntlement with some of those icons never bringing up any useful information, though I haven't been particularly careful about figuring out which ones annoy me the most. I tend not to click on the Urban Dictionary unless I need to. Now that I think about it, M-W is not all that helpful most of the time.

Cool -- next update, MW is out, OneLook is in.

Anyone besides uselessness have an opinion on opening links in new windows vs. the current window? I prefer new windows, but I'm happy to change to the consensus, if there is one.

I like OneLook too. Mostly I use the icons as a convenience for not having to type (and for some discombobulatingly long or weird letter combinations--e.g.,tuttoqqortooq--cut and paste) a word into a search window. I'd vote for replacing MW with OneLook.

I like OneLook a lot, sionnach, and I've virtually stopped using the Merriam-Webster icon link here for the reason you mention--it seems desperate to have us sign up for paid subscriptions. Dictionary.com isn't nearly as offensive, and very often if I use the "Encyclopedia" tab on that site, I come up with something that didn't make it into the dictionary database. If the icon clump seems too overwhelming, maybe a less useful one could be replaced with OneLook?

Never heard of that site, but I'll have to check it out. Sounds handy. I also never use the links on Wordie, for two reasons. First, they open in a new tab/window, which annoys me; and second, I already have dictionary and thesaurus bookmarklets that I use all over the internet, and I use them here too out of habit.

Heartily seconding colleen's post about the snazzy improvements in the layout, and other sundry changes. Thanks, John.

I find that I rarely click on the icon links to the various dictionaries/sites that are currently listed by each word. Why not? Well - and this is especially true for words which are obscure enough to lack a floating definition - because all too often I just end up on a screen telling me that the word doesn't exist in that particular dictionary. Or - particularly irritating - I get a message that it's not in the free version of the dictionary, but inviting me to subscribe online.

But, independently of wordie, I've gotten used to avoiding this by using Onelook.com as my default dictionary search. Onelook searches over a gazillion dictionaries in one fell swoop and generally returns a word definition and links to all dictionaries containing the word. For very obscure words, it may not return the definition, but will provide a link to all of its sources which do provide a definition.

Other useful features are the ability to perform wild-card searches. Its reverse dictionary option is lots of fun as well.

I realize that it is clearly desirable to limit the number of link icons appearing next to a word, but I would find a link to onelook considerably more useful than some of the ones that are currently there.

What are other wordies' opinions on Onelook?

Holy carp, John, I was away awhile and the layout tweaks you've made in that time are fantastic. I'm off to poke the site with a sharp stick and see what else is new.

Chuffed to see that detartrated is your current favorite word.

it's kind of you to mark it. and my hat's off for the top notch site, sir.

thanks!

You are a fracking genius! LOVE the "new word add" enhancement, and the bug/feature/mobile concept is so simple, yet elegant, that it makes perfect sense! If there isn't already, I suggest you copy those two sentences to the home page telling newbies where to go to report bugs etc.

Also? Oroboros mentioned me as a frequent commenter! *is chuffed* I'm sort of sporadic, but when I'm here I spam you all for hours at a time!

Aw, shucks - I still have nowhere near as many comments as uselessness or reesetee or chained_bear!

*makes resolution to be more commenty*

Great idea!

I like it!

How about we open up a conversation on bugs? I'll add a link on the front page, so that people know where to go when they find them.

In the same vein, we can talk about features on features.

Cool, thanks for everything, John. The 400 comments is a good temporary fix until pagination arrives. But it's a pretty monstrously huge page. ;-) Also, maybe there should be a special non-word/profile/list page for this kind of discussion so we don't clutter up the site with feature requests and bug reports and whatnot?

Works like a charm now, John. Many thanks. And I like the increase in the recent comments list, too.

Ok, I think I finally fixed the profile bug. Could one of you who were having trouble with it verify? And as a stopgap measure I upped the 'last comments' page to show the last 400. I'll add paging to it soon, and also to comments elsewhere; my profile is getting kind of ridiculous. And I moved the conversation about possible mobile features over to mobile, if anyone wants to weight in over there.

Wow! That was fast! Thanks for fixing the IE thing.

Keep it up, rocksinmypockets. You're doing juuuust fiiine....

The light...the light...
(shuffling forward, eyes glazed, mumbling incomprehensively)

John; I agree with uselessness on adding pagination to comments. Jeez, I'M RETIRED and I can't keep up!!! I don't know how you workin' plebes do it...y'all must be Evelyn Woods graduates besides being natch'l-born geniuseses :oD

The only option for partial remedy now is to go to say, arby's or reesetee's comments and page back that way, but that's a lot of work...even for retired folks what gots nuthin' better to do, ya know?

Rocksinmypocket, don't listen to skipvia. Come to the light. You'll feel better.

Hey John, as if you didn't already have your hands full, I gotta make a suggestion. 200 recent comments seems like a lot, but they're going by faster and faster all the time. I can keep up with them Monday-Friday, but the weekend throws me off and I end up missing stuff. (And I really don't want to miss anything around here!) Any chance you could add pagination to the comments page, so if I want to look at older ones, I can click a "previous 200 comments" link? That would be stellar.

dang. clearly something's wrong with profiles, i'll keep digging.

skipvia, the url you're seeing (/people/least_fave_word/5201) is correct. the database gives us all cute little nicknames, yours is 5201.

It's too late for me, rocksinmypocket, but you can still save yourself...

Hi - the 404 error being described is the same problem I mentioned a while ago (thanks for responding but I thought I'd just leave it). Anyway, for what it's worth - the same for me, on IE and Opera.

I love your site and fear that I may become addicted. :)

Hi John, I am getting the same 404 error message as others appear to be getting when trying to add my favorite and least favorite words to my profile. I'm on a Macbook Pro and using Firefox.

John--I'm still not able to add favorite words, etc., to my profile. I get a 404 error, with this message:

The uri of the page I couldn't find: /people/least_fave_word/5201

Shouldn't 5201 be "skipvia?"

Tried logging out, resetting password. On a Mac using Firefox, but get the same error with Safari and Netscape.

IE should be fixed. npydyuan, i'm not doubting you at all, but i can't repeat your bug for the life of me. will leave comment on your profile with details.

Speaking of Safari, I still get this when I try to edit my fave word, etc, on my profile page (using Safari 3.0.3 (522.12.1) on Mac OS 10.4.10):

No rush. And I hate IE too. But for some strange reason, Firefox doesn't like my machine. :-)

Hello John. Is there any chance that a mobile version of Wordie is in the works?

Oops--sorry about that. Doesn't happen in either Firefox or Safari, so I hadn't noticed. I need to test in IE more . Dang IE. I'll fix later today.

Hey John--any way to fix that annoying thing that happens when a zillion people have the same word on their lists and the "list of lists" on the word page bumps the comments way down to the bottom? No big deal, but my index finger hurts from scrolling. :-)

I'm loving all the new features, though. In fact, I'm loving them so much that I'm not getting any work done. You should be proud.

New & improved nobody-has-listed-this-word-adding, yay!

Death to all line breaks!

Ha ha, just kidding, I actually enjoy line breaks. I just put them back in, if you check Reesetee's poetrie.

Umm... John? Do you know when/why/how the list descriptors have removed all the line breaks that used to be there? It's not a huge deal, I guess--I added slashes in my newest Tunie to stand for line breaks. Just wondering though. Do you think they can come back? Or is it not desirable for some other reason I'm not considering?

Thanks for the teeny tiny explanatory text, John. I made have been the one to put uselessness over the edge, having just explained the word comments field to a new user today. (Or maybe it was someone else. It happens so often, after all.)

And THANK YOU for fiddling with the new adds process! Even more fun! As though I'm not on this site often enough.... ;-)

So, it's not the most sophisticated solution ever, but I added some teeny tiny explanatory text above the comment box on word list pages. Hopefully it'll help. I agree, that was/is a problem; I'm open to other ideas too.

My personal nit to pick (with myself, I guess) is that the procedure for adding new words is too cumbersome. I usually do a search, and if it's a new word, I get the 'Why don't you' prompt, which is well and good... but then it dumps you on top of your default list, which may not be where you want the word to go. And it doesn't pre-populate the form field. So you then have to type the word again, and probably move it. I'm gonna tidy up that whole procedure tonight.

What, you don't think me pestering people is a good long term solution? Ok, hold on a minute...

Okay John, I'm fed up. It's time for change!

What do I mean? Well, the recurring problem of people not understanding to put word comments on word pages, and putting them on their lists instead, of course! If Wordie has one primary usability concern, that's it. So the question is... what can be done to make it clearer for new users? I have no ideas. Get to work!! ;-)

Trivet, super sorry, I'll email you directly and we'll sort it out.

Help! My words went away! Not all of them, just the main list, but I luuuurved them... I tried to move a word to another list and *poof* - they all ran away.

To echo herr u.: "oh noes, the random word function done brokensied!"

Yes, my casbah rocked too. Unfortunately, on some pages there's a group of links in that list of lists that are inactive -- they don't respond to clicks or mouseovers. Usually that group of links begins around the third item in the list, and covers four or five items below it. I think it might be a CSS z-index issue, of one of the elements on the left extending too far over and covering up a portion of the list. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.6, for what it's worth.

Thanks, John! Figured that was a refresh problem, but it didn't seem to be changing at all. Signed, impatient. ;-)

Thanks, John!

PS - the list of lists a word is on rocks the casbah!

thanks r & t, should be fixed now. res, the word pages are cached, so sometimes updates (moved lists, etc) take a little while to show up. i just refreshed the cache, should be ok now.

I noticed that too, trivet. Also, John, when I moved a word to another list this morning, the previous list title (rather than the new one) is still displayed on that word's page.

Can you no longer link to words in list descriptions? I was adding a word this morning and saw lots of brackets on an old list instead of nice blue words.

Ooh, tea sandwiches! I'll have watercress and cucumber.

*is bored at work*

That would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it? Then again, I don't want to be requiring people to make sense. So I'll leave it be as is. Who knows, maybe somebody'll be going for some kind of avant-garde repetition thing. Something akin to your bottles of beer stunt ;-)

I thought you were only supposed to be able to add a word to a list once... at least that's how it used to be?

Just added a DISTINCT to prevent the showing of doubles. Where you were seeing double, though, it was because those words had, in fact, been listed twice on the same list.

Excellent! Looks smashing. But I'm curious, why does the same SoG list appear twice on the crypts of lieberkühn page? (Edit: Ooks, I just added "smashing" and ended up on the list twice, myself)

(Edit²; When I visited my list, I saw that my one click on "add to your words" had actually added the word twice. I've since deleted the second instance. And I'm seeing double around the site quite a bit now? Did you borked it?)

Thanks uselessness, colleen, and co., made those changes, I think.

Sandwiches and tea (or maybe tea sandwiches?) all around? Reminds me of the bit in Woody Allen's "Bananas" where he orders 1,000 grilled cheese, 300 tuna and BLT sandwiches (one on a roll), 700 coffees, and 500 cokes. Mayonnaise on the side. When it's all ready he shouts "get your money from Vargas, we're the rebels!" and takes off.

"appears in lists" IS vawes but it doesn't seem to work for words listed by only one person?

and I'll pass on the sandwich and have a tea, there's a love.

Thanks zillions. But since you asked... I'd prefer to see each list associated with the person who owns that list. And if each username is a link, it should probably point to that user's profile or something, not the same place the list title links to. If that makes sense. Difficult concept to explain.

Ditto, ditto, ditto and huzzah:)

Mmmmm, sammiches.

And some sandwiches, while you're at it. ;->

OMG that "appears in lists" is beyond awesome, it's DAWESOME - I've wished for that so many times but somehow I thought it would be a much bigger deal to implement, so I never mentioned it.

While we're asking for the sky, you know what else would be cool? To be able to search lists and users.

Wwwwwwow! Expeditious!

Just wanted to note that "break schmeak" is a Yiddish usage. Kewl.

And thanks, John, for all the cool thingahickies that are going on. That "appears on these lists" feature is AAAAAAWESOME! Wooooo! *streaks down hallway between cubicles*

Done--the lists a word appears on are now on the word pages, in the right hand column below the list of Wordies listing. Kind of a tongue-twister, that. Any suggestions for a better place to put it, let me know.

Break Schmeak. I'm kinda between gigs now, you should get it while you can ;-)

Thirded. But I say we give the guy a break first. :-)

Seconded, but after the bevy of cool stuff John's been rolling out lately, I hesitate to ask for even more. ;-)

I think I've mentioned this before but it's come up again: we really need to show on a word's page which lists it's seen in!

Yay! Thanks for all your hard work John - this site is so much fun to use.

PS awesome idea about the Stalker-Traq 2000 friend-subscriptions!

You can't yet, but I think it's a great, great suggestion. What I'd also like to do is make a comprehensive feed for each person, that so you could keep track of all the words they've added, lists and comments they've made, etc. Stalkery concerns could be addressed by letting people turn these feeds off if they want to stay on the DL.

I have a batch of new features I'm trying to get out the door, the main one being tagging, which I'm really excited about. It'll be the culmination and implementation of the joke that begat Wordie: a site that's all tags, and no content :-) Should arrive maybe this weekend.

Once that's done, I'll add some new feeds.

I've got a stalkery question - can we subscribe to other people's profile comment feeds? I'd subscribe to yourn just to keep up with what's going on around here.

Thanks John! I absolutely agree 100% that the best part of this site is the interactive/community component, so I'm glad that's why the layout change. I definitely like the movement of the recent comments to the center of the home page. The only thing I think that threw me for a loop is the realignment of the "who lists" uh, lists to the right side of the word view page instead of in the center. My eyes are used to looking under the word itself and I'm constantly retraining myself to look to the right. But I think it's ok because it refocuses attention on talking about the words rather than just collecting them on our lists.

ETA - I don't know if it helps you (I have this vague idea that you could just port the code) but there's a plugin for Firefox that searches Bartleby All Books (and I specify All Books because it's the one with the best value-add over the current d.com, m-w, etc.).

Words should be movable again.

Yarb, I can't repeat that bug, tried in IE, Firefox and Safari. Could you try logging out and then back in again? Could possibly be a cookie issue, and that might help. If not, email me (johnatwordie.org), and we'll try another tack.

Pissed around? Nice. New one on me.

I like the layout. But I can't get the favourite, least favourite and onomatopeia fields on my profile to work. I've tried in Explorer, where I get a 404, and in Opera, where the field blanks but nothing happens. What am I doing wrong here?

Sorry for pissing you around, John.

Ditto that.

I was noticing the same thing myself, just this morning.

John; I can't get the "move" function to work. Anybody else?

Hi Arby, I'll revisit the comments business, and also check out Bartleby.

The new page layouts -- they're an experiment, and I'm definitely open to suggestions. My main thought was, I love the social side of Wordie, the comments and citations, and I wanted to emphasize them more. But if there were things about the old look you preferred, or changes you'd like to see -- please, let me know!

Thanks for fixing the "comments on" page.. but you're right, it isn't accurate. It says I have no comments on my lists but I know for a fact that ain't true!

Am slightly discombobulated by the new layout but I'll adjust eventually. *shakes cane at newfangled inventions*

Still hoping someday you'll add Bartleby (All Books) to the lookup sites - it could replace like 5 dictionary sites in one fell swoop!

Thanks reesetee. I forgot to add Twelve-Step to my list.

Twelve-step. Compulsive. Must add to list.

For me Wordie was like a powerful narcotic. My first three months on Wordie was agonizing (though a real high) - I compulsively collected words day & night & did nothing else with my computer. It was a major struggle to finally pry myself away and work on other projects & chores.
We need a 12 step group for recovering Wordies. I don't know if I can permanently break this addiction alone - the allure is too great. Say, have I added "allure" to a list? Let me go check.

I read it that way too--and didn't blink. This does not bode well.

I read icco's comment as, "It's like the site is some new form of crack!" I think that both statements apply. :)

John, I love the new caching you implemented. It's like the site is on some new form of crack!

Thanks, glad folks are liking the new homepage. I just tweaked it a bit to further speed it up, too.

I also *finally* fixed the bug that was breaking the "See comments made by others on <you name here>'s words and lists" links. Though now I realize that some of the data on that page is suspect -- I find it hard to believe that only 5 comments have been made on my words. So, I'll look into that, but at least the page seems to be loading now :-)

Hey John, this new homepage is pretty awesome. Thought you oughta know.

Wordie looks & runs great John - the new design is wonderful & pages are loading a lot faster!

John, what is the update rate for the front page? Recent words and citations seem to be stuck at where they were when I first showed up for the day, a few hours ago, though the other parameters update as usual.

Wordie got a facelift! I like the little icons for dictionary links. Could the recent lists go up closer to the top? I'm more interested in them than the various wordiest/citiest rankings, and I'm a lazy scroller... Thanks for all the schlepping and remodeling you've been doing!

many thanks, until you are better paid.

Lo siento, compas. Fixed now.

El mismo, tambien! Ditto

John, what happened to the all-time wordiest list? I've been getting 404s on it.

Well, jennarenn, now that you put it that way.... ;-) But I can't stalk on Facebook during work hours. My computer there thinks it's porn and I get the Red Screen of Death.

Actually, my computer there thinks most things are porn, including air traffic control sites.

Ooo! reestee, feel free to stalk me. uselessness is the only one who ever does and it makes me feel sad. ;)

Yea, verily! Have a crumpet on me!

I am the lie that reveals the truth!

He did say he had a very elaborately constructed Interweb identity.... ;-)

Japanese schoolgirl!!??. I thought you were a little teapot!

Facebook apps: seems like a good place for WordPlay games, maybe? The comments section here isn't totally suited for that. Then again, an infrastructure specifically designed for games would be most ideal, and most involving to build. So take it as you will. ;-) Let me know what you want to do on Facebook and I'll be happy to join up.

Don't throw up, John! It's not worth it! ;->

Oh, that begs for one of us starting a Wordie group on Facebook. And also reminds me... I'd like to build a Wordie facebook app (or two). I could do something simple, like port over the existing blog widgets. But there must be something more fun we could do, that would take advantage of both the friend connections on Facebook, and the word connections on Wordie. Actually, I think this discussion merits a mention on Errata, which I'll throw up momentarily. If anyone has any brilliant ideas, please post them to the upcoming http://errata.wordie.org/ post, if you would.

Multi-site stalking. Ya just can't beat it.

Great stuff, thanks! I'm on the 'book and was pleased to see it here. Now I'm going to see who else has it and stalk all my fellow Wordies. Starting with you. ;-)

I just added Facebook as an "also on" service. Not sure how many people that will appeal to, though Facebook has opened its gates to more than students, and I've gotten kind of addicted to it lately.

Some of you have dropped hints, but it's hard to say if you folks are sophomores in college, or retirees, or what :-)

I myself am a young Japanese schoolgirl, fwiw, with a very elaborately constructed Interweb identity.

Just fixed the titles and descriptions bug, where you couldn't see them on your own lists.

Here's a little trick, if you want to be able to view an arbitrary number of past comments. Hit this url:

http://wordie.org/comments/index/5

Replace the number 5 with the number of recent comments you want to see, and that's what you'll get :-)

Hear, hear for the new-and-improved recent comments!

Sometime in the last few weeks, all of my list titles and descriptions seem to have gone awol - other lists show up just fine, but when I look at my own, nothing. Not the end of the world, just...odd.

Thank you for the "recents comments" feed!

Oh, joy! 200 comments! I'm deliriously happy. Thanks, John. Now I can keep up on all the fun stuff people say while I'm away. Not that I'm away much. ;-)

In case anyone missed the Errata post, I finally added a 'random words' feed, as well as a 'recent comments' feed, both listed in the new (and soon to expand) 'feeds & widgets' page, linked to at the bottom of every page on the site.

Hey kids, sorry to be so late in responding to this. I fixed the 'remove from favorites' bug a few days ago. Been super stupid busy, but I will try to get the random word feed happening sometime soon, too.

Welcome, Infostyx! I also became an instant addict--I am enjoying your list. Oroboros is right--that delete function seems to be broken.

Infostyx: I had the same problem and that's a definite glitch. Email John if it doesn't get fixed pretty soon. I know he appreciates getting the word post haste.

I have turned into a full-blown wordie addict within my first 24 hours on the site. My only problem so far is that when I try to remove a word from my favorites, it says 'user not found'. What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks, I can't wait :)

I second that! Thanks again, John.

Exciting. Looks like a good book too, I've added it to my Amazon wish list. :-)

Thanks for everything you do! You're our resident superhero!

Random word widget and feed, favicon, I can do those, and will soon. Can also build an API, but I'd like to give that a little more thought. I've built a few of those before, but I'm reading an excellent O'Reilly book about that very topic, and will apply some of what I've learned. As always, Wordie will be my guinea pig.

You know what this site also needs? a Favicon.

also I too get the 500 error listed below

My comments for view breaks Wordie.. I get this adorable message:

"Sorry, but this site has gone all 500 Application Error on you. Something's wrong with the server, most likely. Please email John, the slack bastard who built this. Feel free to give him a piece of your mind."

Ya I saw that. Pretty cool.

If you're interested, I made a Firefox bookmarklet to add words. It works two ways:

1. Highlight a word or phrase on a web page, then activate the bookmarklet to add it.

2. Activate the bookmarklet to be prompted to type a word or phrase to add.

Just create a bookmark with this code for the "location":

javascript:inText=window.getSelection();if(inText == ''){void(inText=prompt('Enter a word to add it to one of your lists on Wordie:',''));}if(inText != '' && inText != null){null(window.location = 'http://wordie.org/words/import_to/'+escape(inText),'_blank','');}

ya, I have two things I want to do, first is just a little php widget thingy that can sit on my site with "Random word: WORD" then "Curious? Check out wordie." or something along those lines.

And for the API I have all kinds of ideas, one of which would be a cloud that put together my top viewed photos and the word cloud from one of my lists (or all of them if possible) so I would have a big cloud of cool words and cool photos. Then possibly export it so I can print it in poster size or something...

but ya API = infinite goodness. (ooo another quick idea, ability to right click any word in firefox and immediately add it to the list of your choice...)

Ditto on that. I had the idea of a random word feed myself a few days ago, and though I hadn't considered an API I concur that it would be awesome. It would be awesome to have access to the Wordie database on other sites.

Hey there, I am loving this site, but I would love some sort of API where I could extract my words in an array or something, so I could build my own word cloud.

Another cool feature would be a random word rss feed. So lets say every hour the rss feed would pump out a random word. (hmm as I think about this, I may be able to hack this together, But I'll get back to you on that....)

Thanks o, fixed now.

Hey John, the "All-time 100 Wordiest" list is doing what the "Citations and Comments" list was doing before: "Sorry, can't find a user by that name".

Well, this rat is addicted. ;-) Thanks, John.

Oh good, I'm so glad you like it. I feel a little like a rat pressing the button for a food pellet, clicking it over and over, but it's fun to have another little window into Wordie.

Me too! Me too!

dig the random word!

Ooooh, the comments are back - thanks, John!

Same here. Odd....

Yikes, I'm getting the same thing. Not a good start to my morning!

Are Recent Comments a thing of the past? When I click on the link, I get: "Sorry, can't find a user by that name."

it's impossible to log in when browsing with Nokia Communicator. Well, what the hell, I do not use that brick very often.

I just had to laugh at u. I do get a little jealous when I can't visit for a few days. People are having fun without me!!!!

Thanks for the update, John. Don't think a little crappy error handling is going to keep us away. :-)

It's okay, John, we still love you. ;-)

If it's true that user comments are responsible for the breakage, I'll try to keep an eye on that in the future, and edit the offending message if it's my fault. I've certainly been known to write my fair share of goofy characters and markup around here.

The comments page does seem to spontaneously combust every once in a while. Let's face it--it's my fault. It's got crappy error handling, so when someone puts a wonky character on it, or forgets to close a tag or something, it blows up.

I've been threatening to fix this forever, and you know, someday I will. Really.

But in case that doesn't happen immediately, the page will correct itself, eventually, probably, when whatever comment is causing the issue rolls off the page.

Not to worry, slumry. I firmly believe it breaks of its own volition, just...BECAUSE. ;-)

"How does one break the comments page," she asked meekly, always fearful that she was the culprit.

Argh, somebody done broke the recent comments page. I MIGHT HAVE MISSED SOMETHING IMPORTANT OVER THE WEEKEND!! :-O

Hey, John, just wanted to send a quick thanks for making the site--I've been on here for a few months now but thought it futile to post on here without a suggestion/contribution. Alas, I can't think of anything at the moment. So, thanks!

I'll write a proper post about this on Errata this coming week, but wanted to let you regulars know, I just launched a new tool. It's a site to let you search all your tags, across multiple sites, from a single location:
http://www.tagsahoy.com

So far TagsAhoy supports del.icio.us, Flickr, Gmail, LibraryThing, and Connotea. I'll add more sites (including Squirl) in the near future. If you use tags on any of these, you might find it useful.

I'd love to hear opinions or suggestions for improvements and new features.

Just sped up the front page, as detailed on Errata. Next up: fixing the comments weirdness.

Thanks, John! Very much appreciated. :-)

Great news, John! It's easy to forget that this site is a labor of love for you, and we do appreciate it. It's easy to take it for granted. Let me know if I can help with anything.

Errata is back up. Sorry about that -- my hosting company switched Wordie to another box, and chaos ensued. I'm hoping to dedicate a some time in the next few days to Wordie -- fix that bug in viewing comments on your stuff, try to speed up the front page. I'd also like to add paging to some of the really really long pages, but that might take a bit longer.

Hope I didn't break it! I posted around that time. ;-)

It is for me--has been since last Friday.

So is Errata still down?

ellenw, the problem with a megalist is that it would take a long time to load. Some lists have already crashed computers as is.

John, I was wondering if there was some way to add extra organization to the favorites page. I'm up to 50, and it's getting tough to navigate through them all.

Thanks again!

I think I emailed this to you at some point, but I'm not sure. I'd like my profile on Wordie to show my combined list of words -- all my words right now are in lists, so they don't show up! Maybe with a "this word appears in such and such list" next to it.

the bleeding edge... I'll stay until I'm drained. Love what's happening here!

I offer do a translation of the whole site to Spanish.
What do you think?
Absolutely free, of course.
I love this site. So, it´s my way to improve it!!

kudos to the founders!!

1. It would be nice when "add to your word" need only to be done in ONE CLICK.
2. Search list title.
3. Add words to the existing list.
4. Search a "wordie" (user?).
5. We need a proper forum for Q&A just like in LibraryThing and save you the hassle to answer all the questions. ;-)

Hey -- been out of the loop for a while, dang job getting in the way. Just skimmed the recent comments, and tons of good stuff there. Over the coming week I'll try to hit the low-hanging fruit, and make a plan for what else can be done. Might not be immediate, but wanted you to know, I'm listening!

Everyone has their own way of listing words. I limit my word set list to about 100 words or so each because I enjoy browsing through them & hate scrolling. Scrolling through long lists gets very fatiguing to me about a third of the way down.
I like uselessness' idea of having a single lookup link with a drop-down menu of all the possible sources.

I agree with uselessness about not truncating lists, but I also agree with seanahan that it is really frustrating to try to learn a new word, only to find that none of the available links list it. It didn't occur to me to find a technical solution to this. I just figured that the obvious remedy is to encourage people to list a definition or usage of very unusual terms when they list the term itself. I've tried very hard to list definitions particularly of very arcane or esoteric words, or words specific to a certain field of knowledge (it helps that I have access to the OED at work)--and the more everyone does so, the better site it will be. Not the ideal solution, perhaps, but it also won't overload anyone's servers. And it encourages discussion, which is perhaps one of the best aspects of Wordie.

I agree with uselessness--I don't completely understand the technical aspects of all this, but I think truncating lists would take a lot of the fun out of the current setup. My two cents.

Good idea, though I'm not too keen on truncating lists. One of the things I enjoy about the current setup is being able to view a bunch of related words on one page. It's fun to scroll through an unabbreviated list, scanning for interesting stuff. I'm not sure that splitting lists into multiple parts would be the best idea.

Caching lookup results server-side might work. What if, in the database, each word stored a tiny list of the sites known to have information on it? These attributes could be set with a one-time lookup, perhaps run automatically whenever a new word is added?

The downsides are that the Wordie cache may not always be accurate; new definitions are being added to the different sites all the time, and may do so for a word after its initial lookup from here, causing a link that should appear on a word's page not to be displayed. So our cache will need to be updated from time to time.

And what would we do about the 177,000 words already listed? It might be difficult to look them all up and append the cached query data to each automatically. Not that I wouldn't like to see it happen. I'm just not sure what kind of horsepower John's server really has, and I'd hate to push it that hard.

Well, I think we could put some sort of limit on the size of lists, or split them up, "Words I like, aa-an", "Words I like, ao-bc", etc. The off-site queries could be cached, which should save most of the computation, but it would still be problematic for long lists. I really only care when I'm on the page for that word, so that would only be the 8 off-site queries. It is really frustrating to click all those links and find none of them have the word.

I expect that would dramatically increase the load time of Wordie pages. Maybe there's a way around that. I'm trying to imagine what would happen if the system ran eight off-site queries for each word on stpeter's list, all at once. It would likely bring John's server to its knees (not to mention my browser, which already begs for mercy when I load stpeter's list.) :-)

Or, if a website doesn't have a page for the word, for instance, if dictionary.com has no entry for the word, not to include that link at all. This is probably a lot harder to do.

So many other great sites to link to! I wonder if it might be a good idea to remove the link list altogether, and replace it with one link that just says "lookup" or something. Clicking that link could employ some Ajax magic to pop up a box with all the links in it. That would remove a lot of clutter, and allow the link list to grow much bigger than it is currently.

Good idea, arby--I'm a Bartleby's fan as well. :-)

Can we add Bartleby.com to the list of sites to look up words on? I like it ever so much better than Dictionary.com - plus it has Roget's thesauri and so many other reference works.

Also, I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses the "recently added words" list on the home page to find new words to add. The only problem with this is that it leads to duplication as the same words are cycled back up to the top of the page. Is there a way to suppress words from showing on the home page more than once?

I agree--that would be very useful.

I concur! I've wished for this on more than one occasion.

John, when you search for a word, or click on a link to it, and it isn't in the database, it says, "Nobody is listing it, why don't you?" It would be nice if it instead said, "Nobody is listing this, CLICK HERE to add to your words".

I think there may be a wee bug in the sort order.. I choose alpha and it still shows by date added. I have to click twice for alpha to "stick".

I love this site!!!!! Keep up the good work!

PS here's a great list of "nym" words for the profile.

Hey tankexmortis, good call -- you can now link words (comment-style, by using brackets) in the 'more about you' section on your profile.

it would be great if when you clicked on a word, you could see all the lists it belonged to

Hey, how come I can't link words in my profile text? If I could, it would be neat.

It seems to me that adding a word to a list should not remove the word from one's main list. As it is now, "chrisjones's Words" is inaccurate, since it appears to store only the leftovers.

Also, if lists behaved more like labels, words could belong to multiple lists, which would be capital.

My apologies if this has been brought up before.

Keep up the good work, and watch your back -- my employer is going to kill you.

Thanks John!

how about more -onyms in the profile set up.

Yeah, regarding plurals, I phrased that poorly -- I'm not really sure what I meant. As is almost always the case, you can do whatever you want. In general I think it makes the site more fun when there are more connections between words and wordies, and one way to encourage that is to let people know what other word forms have already been entered. I wasn't considering forcing people to use a root, or a previously entered form, just of letting folks know what was already in the system, if in fact a related word had already been entered. Though in reality I'll probably do neither, since it would take a good bit of work to add that logic.

Which is the sad truth about why pretty much anything goes here. I like to pretend I'm all open minded, but mostly I'm just lazy.

I agree about interstices, sounds so serpetine. And sibilance is a great word, didn't know that one.

What does it mean to "handle plurals better"? Some folks might simply prefer the plural form. Example: I prefer interstices to interstice because that final "s" adds further sibilance. Why discourage folks from listing one form over the other? And why does the "root" word get preferential treatment in the first place? Sounds like wordism to me. ;-)

BTW, the WSJ story is cool (through which I find yet another parallel between us -- we're both Columbia grads).

I actually hadn't even heard of GCIDE until I went looking for it, but evidently it's the entire 1913 (or whatever) public-domain Websters in well-formed XML format. A good parser and some glue and you've got yourself a headword checker -- at least, one that checks for headwords from 100 years ago. :)

I love the site and I'm glad you had the idea to develop it before I did. I tend to overextend myself and if I had thought of wordie.org, I know it would have stalled and failed. Congratulations on a great "Web 2.1" site: semantic, folksonimied, but not eye-candied.

billifer, excellent suggestion. I have 'handle plurals better' on my to-do list, and was thinking along the same lines -- that I'd try to have the system check if a word being added was a plural, then see if we already have the singular, and ask if they'd like to use that instead. Would be great if it could also detect roots/headwords and list existing variations.

No idea when or if I'll be able to tackle that, but I'd like to, so know it's on the list. And thanks a million for the GCIDE link, I've been looking all over for something like that. Could be useful for all sorts of fun tricks.

Lampbane and inkhorn, more stats and better data views are on deck. See Errata for the latest: Word Clouds.

I know that it's a massive request, given the morphology of English, but as a future enhancement, it would be great if you could have wordie try to guess (potentially with user confirmation) the root word when a word is entered, so that we don't end up with, say, discern, discerning, discerned, discernable, discerns, etc., all as separate entries, each with different people listing each one. So if I entered "discerned" maybe it should ask me in a nice AJAXy way, " 'Discern' is already listed. Add it to list instead?"

There are XML-based dictionaries (or one, at least) on the web that might make the task a little easier -- GCIDE.

This is a great site, and I'm glad to have it. Thanks for putting it together!

I want to see a list of the most popular new words.

Just a thought, but it might be interesting to have a page with some Wordie stats. For example,
- Avg words per Wordie (Total Words/Wordies)
- Avg words per List (Total Words/Word Lists)
- Avg unique words per Wordie (Unique Words/Wordies)
- Avg unique words per List (Unique Words/Word Lists)
- Overall percentage of unique words (Total Words/Unique Words)
- Avg number of lists per Wordie (Word Lists/Wordies)
et cetera...

incredible invention john. i am obsessed with web 2.0/social media, and wordie is like getting an expensive christmas present early :)

hi noelle, thanks for the heads up, fixed now.

Hi, I can't access my primary words, but I'm able to add words to a list. Not only can I not see the words when I'm loged in, but also, when I'm loged out. Thanks for any assistance!!!!

Not high priority, but it would be cool to see which lists contain a word when you click to a word's page.

Presumptuous? Holy smokes, I'm ecstatic! Absolutley brilliant idea, fantastically awesome, pure genius. I'm firing up my old laptop right now, on which reside most of my photos. Would be fun to post photos that accompany specific lists. Update: Just added the ability to add descriptions to lists, which stay up to, below the list name. An improvement over using comments to provide descriptions, since those end up migrating to the bottom of the page.

There's also a Wordie group on LibraryThing. I love cross-pollination.

Putting up words started reminding me of pictures I've taken recently, and I briefly thought of linking to them, but instead I ended up making a Wordie Flickr group. I hope that wasn't too presumptuous.

I did! Both first wordie credit, and also the ability to move words from list to list directly. They're live, but I'm still testing them a bit (let me know if they're activing wonky). I'll announce or Errata later tonight if they seem stable.

Wow, you're adding functionality faster than Google. (no offense wilamette).

Perhaps a way to see who has favorited your list? If there is already a way, ignore my request. I am a wordie - not a techie.

Hi John, is there any feature that allows a user to see when people have commented on words that are in their dictionary? Something like the Recent Comments list in the sidebar on the Main Page, but somewhere in your profile, only for words in your lists.

How about a list of those who 1st listed a word and/or the name of the list in which a word 1st appeared?

Eh, screw that one. So the homepage goes all italic every once in a while. No biggie.

I think I broke the home page. The "Recent Comments" excerpt clipped my text in the middle of an italic section; without the closing EM tag, everything on the page that follows the excerpt is also italic now. Another minor bug fix to add to your mountainous to-do list of updates.

Any possibility of getting a searchable list of lists?

Hey folks, I'm going to apologize in advance for what will be the slowed pace of new features this week. Have other things I need to focus on. Though I really do hope to be able to tackle moving words between lists.

Seanahan, I like the idea of being able to track disliked words, and I'll see if I can work with the data from the 'least favorite word' info on profiles. But actually creating a hated word list for everyone strikes me, right now, as too negative. Nothing to stop people from creating them themselves, though I understand that makes it harder to aggregate.

edwardv, the game of wordie sounds great, and a wordie/jabber mashup sounds tremendously great. not something i can do right now, but something that maybe a more jabber-fluent member might consider...

In the list of recent words, it would be good to have a link which directly adds each word to one's word list. Also, it would be good to add answers.com to the list of links for each word.

It would be cool if everyone had a default hated(disliked) words list. This would make it easy to have least favorite words across Wordie, "Most Hateful Wordier", etc.

Just got done playing the game of wordie with my first grader. Here's the rules.

Player one picks a category. Player two responds with a word in the category, and then they alternate until someone can't come up with a word. You look up any words you don't know in the dictionary, and you check for spelling if there's any questions.

This game can be played in the bathtub with no pencil and no paper, but it's fun to do with two people sitting next to a computer with one typing quickly. I will just bet it would be a good wordie + Jabber game.

I also second the ability to move words from one list to another.

I really think it would be a good idea to have the definition of a word on the page when you click on it. That would really speed up the browsing of new words and looking at other people's lists.

Maybe you could do a thing that quotes definitions from different sites, kinda like Google does it when you hit definition on a search?

Hi stpete, indeed I am. Moved away for a long time, but back in Portland as of a few months ago. I see you're in Colorado -- thought Jabber was too cool to be based here -- Maine is many wonderful things, but a tech mecca isn't one of them :-) Librarything is the only rad 2.0ish webco based here, to my knowledge.

Hey peoples, we just got Techcrunched :-)

Hey John, I just discovered that you're a fellow maineiac. :-)

You are the greatest man alive and I thank you for creating this website...

...yet I am also sad I discovered it during finals week.

I just realized this morning that there's a bug in the code for deleting lists. When you delete just a word, it behaves correctly, but not when you delete whole lists. My apologies, working on a fix right now (UPDATE: should be fixed, email me if you still see weird behavior).

Also, my apologies for ignoring some of the comments/suggestions below, had to focus on work for a bit. Will address some of those items this weekend.

I noticed something about the word count stats: I deleted a fair number of word lists on Monday, but still have the same number of words as I did before the deletion.

When I have removed single words in the past, my word count immediately reflected it, but with the lists, nothing changed.

Any idea what might cause that?

It'd be grand if on the "{n} wordies list {word}" page, after each name, it was shown exactly *what* list (if any) the word is included in.

That said, I don't quite understand the point of a general word list, especially since we have a separate "favourites" list - mine's only full of words I had to add so they would exist on Wordie, and I'm sure those are rapidly becoming scarce!

What about adding words in other languages? Although I suppose there's nothing stopping me from listing words from whatever language(s) I fancy, I'm curious to know what you and others think about this. It could create a problem for trying to look up the word for example in the English Wikipedia though.

Just joined after seeing your site featured on one of my favorite video podcasts, www.mobuzztv.com
Love the site!

...should solve the group list suggestion. Not that I know how to build something like that...

Also, is there a way to eliminate users' default word lists from the home page? If I sign up, add one word and disappear I don't think my lame default list should push another user's lovingly created list off the home page. Just a thought.

You know what I want (besides a pony and my two front teeth)? I want to see the number of people who have a word on their list. So instead of clicking on the word to see how popular it is, I want to see it the list, just like I can see the number of words a user has on their lists. Because, really, I care more about the words than I do about the people.

A one click button to move a word from one list to another.
(Lazy I know, but it would be easier to rearrange. LOL)

Noted. Don't get me wrong -- I like the group list idea too. Just would want it to be optional. The main impediment, though, is that I'd have to build it :-) It'll happen eventually though.

I also think that the shared(group) list is a good idea. For example, someone created a Decemberists word list a couple hours before I would have. It would be cool to share a list, rather than me pester someone to add it to theirs, or to make my own list with the same topic.

John, thank you for that reassurance. You are doing a smashing job with this project.

it would be cool to have a link next to words in one list that add the words to another list i've created, or moves them to a different list. this website is so amazing, i never knew i wasn't the only wordnerd out there (to this extent. i have obsessive-compulsive lists of words everywhere!)

Yeah, what they said. I might add a 'group list' feature eventually, but the default will always remain as is, for the exact reason that colleen states -- authorial intent.

As for the point, you have a point, there is no point. In other words, it's just for fun. Though maybe not just: it's educational!

RE keenanpepper's comment:

I frankly would not want anyone else to be able to add to my lists - they are personal collections, and therefore their content is limited by my preferences. There is a significant element of authorial intent at work. If I don't have a color on my list that you think I ought, or a piece of furniture... so? Start your own list! I think that most of these lists aren't meant to be authoritative, we aren't assembling a lexicon à la Wiktionary. As the front page information says, "whatever." Wordie is relative, subjective, personal, that's a big part of what makes it fun.

If group lists were an option I'm sure some people would use it, but I would not want that to be the default.

Keenanpepper, the site's barely a week old. Give the man time to add a feature! (;

I don't understand the point of this website. I can't add words to lists that already exist? I can't create a list that other people can add words to?

A Jabber bot would be frickin' amazing. If you tackle that, let me know what I can do to help (my email: john@squirl.info).

Oh, and how about a Jabber bot that enables you to add a word via IM? I could probably hack one up for you...

Here's another techie suggestion -- enable ClaimID support (it's easy!) so that Wordies can proudly say "yes, this really is my very own Wordie page" (or list). Thanks for the great service!

Hey John, since you use Jabber, how about adding it to the service dropdown list on the profile page? :-)

wow stpeter, thanks! i use jabber every day (via google). so very cool. i'm honored.

Count me addicted. I blogged it here.

Thanks John, that was fast :)

Justed added the free dictionary, been meaning to do that, thanks for the reminder. Removed thesaurus.com to make space, figuring you can get there easily enough from dictionary.com.

Hi John, would it be possible to add a link to the free dictionary for each word too?

john, you're amazing, i can't believe this feature is up already!! excellence!

All right! You're a king amongst men, John. It's amazing how quickly you've been adding features.

Hi tank, tomorrow I'll be adding a page where you can at least view all your comments, with links back to where they were made. Not quite how Last.fm does it, but a step in that direction. I'll work on sorting the list order, too.

H'lo again, just thought I'd ask about the chances of a list re-sorting feature. That is, I'd like to change the order my lists appear in so that related lists which I created at different times are together and such. Not a particularly useful feature, but I've been noticing it's absence.

Oh, and a really great but probably difficult to implement feature would be a way to track my comments as on Last.fm.

Now, back to the addiction. :D

:::addicted:::

thank for catching it, kat. words in multiple lists should now sort correctly.

The list thing, the words are just falling where I didn't expect them to, in the new list, and someone just explained that to me, so. I'm good.

Next time, I'll check more closely. :D

hi kat, words should be able to exist in more than one list -- i just tested, seems to be working. email me (john@squirl.info) if it's not for you.

i'll look into sort order for accented characters -- it's relying on the default database sort, i can probably tweak that.

I'm loving this! So simple, so cool.

Two things I wonder about:

Will it someday be possible for a word to exist in two of your lists simultaneously?

For example, saffron (as in the spice) in one list and saffron (as in the color) in another? Would there be a way to do that, while of course avoiding double-counting the word?

Also, I recently added the word 'étouffée' to a list, and it is sorted alphabetically between 'axis' and 'babble.' Will those sorts of first letter accents be accommodated so that they sort properly?

Thanks again for this!

also it would be nice to be able to mark people as friends, list them on your profile (a la flickr).

*love*

this is just another vote for the option to, when browsing and come upon a delightful word, click to add it to your list. i know you said you're working on it. :-)

also, this site ROCKS. i mean, the idea as well as the implementation. when i first came here i didn't think i would get into it but, um, i've been here almost 45 minutes already.

John, you're a king among men. :)

Dang sdb, forgot all about that. You're right, methinks drives me nuts. Though it's contextual -- it's ok if you work at Medieval Times.

Quaxanta and PrincessCenedra, I'm working on integrating spellchecking right now. In the early stages, but I'll announce it on the front page when it's available, hopefully in a few days.

Colleen, I'm also working on the ability to add words to your lists from other parts of the site. Main thing that needs to be figured out is how to select what list to import into -- it'll probably use some kind of little popup.

Anybody played with Ninjawords (http://ninjawords.com)? You can look up multiple words at once, by separating them with a comma. Nice feature.

Hello, I love the site and I think that it is wonderfully lovely. As far as improvements go I agree with Quaxanta in that we need a spellchecker, and colleen in that it would be nice to be able to add someone elses word simply. I would like you to work on us being able to see how many words you have in common with someone else like on LibraryThing if at all possible. I love this wordy wordie world and hope that it never does depart from me. Thank you!

This site is brilliant! One feature I'd like to see though is an optional spellchecker before I add my words to my list -- it's a nuisance to have to open up another browser window just because I can't quite remember how many p's are in hippopotomonstrosesquippedalian or something.

I'm loving the site as well. I'd love to be able to look up words with a direct click to the Free Dictionary (thefreedictionary.com). I have found it to be much more useful than either M-W or dictionary.com. Plus, it uses only Google text ads.

I thought your least favorite word was methinks...

John, this is the coolest thing I've ever found on the web.

what I think would be awesome is a way to add a word from someone else's list or from the recent words page. if that is possible, it would be great. beyond that, I have absolutely no complaints. I love this. :)

Mein got, I had no idea how many word geeks there are out there. We are legion! An old friend (msc) and I used to email funny words back and forth to amuse ourselves, which was the germ of this. Guess we weren't the only ones collecting words :-)

I really appreciate all the feature suggestions and bug fixes everyone has sent, and of course all the words. Thanks much to everyone.

Holy cow.

I am obsessed!

:D

200 users in 2 days!?! Apparently there are a lot of compulsive, list-making word geeks out there. Or, rather, in here.

added some more browsing to the front page, will continue to expand that -- more browsing, more stats. dude, yesterday there were 3 users!

by user? by active lists? Love to flip through some of the stuff that was on the home page yesterday--you know, before membership ABSOLUTELY EXPLODED.