📋 Whiteboard Feature on SW 📩

As most have said, it worked a lot like the "whiteboards" people have started here. People could post a little something on your profile, and I believe people could also comment on those posts. I think there were also gifts and stickers that could be posted on it.

They were sometimes abused. Maybe it would be a good idea to offer the option of whiteboard posts not from friends needing to be approved by the user before actually showing up on their profile. While the user could delete anything posted on their whiteboard, sometimes nasty things were up for a while before the user signed in and deleted them.

the beauty of it was that i didn't have to ask a question or post a story, any friends could come to my profile and post directly on my whiteboard..

it would always be there.. i could click on a profile and select their whiteboard the same way i might select their friends list or groups here, it would be listed in that menu..

I'd click on it and their whiteboard would open for me unless their settings prevented it ( friends only)..

For me, my whiteboard would always be immediately visible when going to my profile page..
I would also receive notifications when someone posted on my whiteboard.

It was a posting graphic on our profile page where user's could leave comments or chat with that person directly, it had options for public, friends only or friends and followers..
it had separate gifts and emogis..
I would like to see a type of large dialog box with chat bubbles..... that would be nice.

It was an addition to our profile. People could post messages, send gifts, say hi. It was under the title Whiteboard. I would like it to work the same way as it did on EP. I didn't find anything I didn't like about it. Oh, wait. I can remember that trolls could post and it had a delete feature to stop that kind of crap. I want mine with an open setting. I doubt I will have trouble with trolls. I can clobber them. LOL.

I was never apart of EP. Yet as you may know a number of users have already set up their own versions of whiteboard. I suggest you look at them.

I use mine as a staging area to notify people of what sections of my profile/photoboards have been updated. As well as an open area to get ahold of me.

I would suggest that these whiteboard areas not be subject to overall notifications.

I already had one person leave a message for another person on my whiteboard because of the open notifications. And I am not certain if that other person really wanted that message.

I believe it's intent was to be more of a personal area. And not to be broadcasted all over the neighborhood.

Think of it like an open mail box where anyone can leave a message and not yell it to the whole world.

I don't remember how it worked on EP but I love this idea.

What I would like is people to be able to leave comments on my profile. These comments would have the same features as any other comment box. So also pictures and videos could be commented. The nice thing about a profile comment is that it is (by default, see below) public and that it is less intrusive then a PM.

Of course some options should be in place:
- The option to allow anyone to comment.
- The option to limit comments to only friends.
- The option to moderate comments first (so the profile owner reviews and then accepts or rejects the comment)
- The option to delete comments.
- The option to turn off this feature altogether (nobody can comment).

In short: since it's on the members profile, they should have full ownership of this whiteboard.

Thank you for taking this into consideration.

Oh, a team change?

It was a part of a profile where people could post public messages/gifts/cards for each other.

You asked if anyone could show screenshots of the whiteboard feature from EP. I can show you part of mine, as I saved screenshots of it just before EP shut down.


There's a lot more, but this should give you some idea of what it was like. I always liked the nice little messages, gifts, and gestures that people sent me. By the way, we did have to use tokens to send gifts, but gestures (which were similar but perhaps not quite as fancy) were free. It was fun.

You could talk to peeps, without messaging privately. Drop by and say "hi", see who they were chatting with. It was kind of like a friendly neighborhood, open for all to see, and never taken as seriously as private messages.

good thing: you felt like you had a private space
for stories that won't reach the other members
unless they went to your profile

people could comment on your WB posts
it wasn't always pleasant


there was a lot of interaction on Whiteboards

WB is more relaxed when it comes to sending casual hello to people you think for that day, regardless of the gender. I would rather send a simple message on WB than in PMs which is a bit too personal.

I can't even remember how it was on EP lol. But the fact you're keen for feedback on it is great. 🙂

I see most would love a whiteboard as much as I would, and DO have one up already. 😊If people don't like pm's it's a great way to say "hello" and keep in touch with friends. The set up on EP changed over the years. We use to have wall paper on our profiles and could choose what color and design we wanted, there was only 3 or 4 designs to choose from. Questions use to be on the left, the whiteboards where in the middle of our profiles and our stories use to be on the right. That format changed and became impersonal and drab as time went on, I really disliked EP in the last year it was running and left. They took away the wallpaper, greeting cards, trophy room, and made our profile pictures really tiny to where you couldn't even recognize who it was?! You use to also be able to invite people and would get trophies when so many signed up. It was so much fun way back in 2010 when I started there. *sigh*

Community functions at different levels, and close personal relationships are one critical part of the success. On SW it's difficult to maintain that because I never see my friends unless we're online at the same time. To some extent that's because some switch off the 'replies' to be able to track what they've been up to.

White board allows a more personal connection. I can't recall whether it was slightly more visual? Colourful? Can't remember sorry.



I wrote a suggestion that Stories and Questions are for all intents and purposes here the same. I don't bother writing stories here. I'd appreciate it if you at least had a glance at my suggestion. Cheers.

i had thought the white board would be part of the site when it opened so YES! A whiteboard ids way past due.

Whiteboards were at the bottom of people's profile. It looked like a typical comment section.

It adds another dimension to the site. Its personal & casual but not private & formal like pm. It fosters a sense of community which is one of the major differences between this site & EP.

Its great for being nosy. I hope you guys decide to add whiteboards!

[i][c=#BF0080]I thought the whiteboards on ep were like the gifts section here only people could comment without gifts and I think there were free gifts if I’m not mistaking, but I can be wrong. [/c][/i]

There are a slew of self made whiteboards.
The resourcefulness of many members is amazing.

i wasn’t on ep so i don’t know how they worked there in detail. i think the idea is interesting, but i’m a little worried about privacy. the way these makeshift sw whiteboards work anyone that isn’t blocked can comment. i’d like a friends only or a friends and circle only option, and perhaps even an option to disable the whiteboard or stop people from commenting on it.

if used in a positive way i think it’s a good idea, but it might be another way to spread hate if there aren’t some optional limitations to it 😊

letting us respond to comments made when people leave us gifts would be close to a whiteboard type of feature..

The whiteboard was just a place on people's profiles where people could leave comments.. (And reply to the comments) It was like an open message (anyone could read it) they had a setting where you could make it for anyone to comment on or just friends only

This would be great.

Whiteboard is literally on the Profile and is public to anyone. Like how the gifts on the profile is formatted, if I can remember. But I think its on either the right side or the other. Message and reply tab was also there (not sure of this part though.
I just can't remember if the message space alloted can take a whole lot of a story for a message board. I remember there were long messages on the WB that just reading the WB pisses me off. It shoukd be limited to few characters. Same thing with the reply that goes with it. I don’t need WB that would just be use By complaining women about how I have no posts or friends or whatever. It is my profile it is my choice, why complain about it.

Please make it an optional feature so those that don't want it can choose not to have it

I think we should be able to hide some posts we may get and make them Private, as in Gifts received...

I thought the Whiteboard feature on EP was good. Suggestion: Increase the character allotment though. I thought it was too truncated.

What is a whiteboard feature? No idea what that means

to be honest i really didnt use the white board. it was just a gimmick. i dont see much use for it. gifts pretty much replaced the white board feature.

What does it even do?

Oh yes for sure

I'm not fussed, I wasn't on EP so don't know how it would improve my SW experience