socializr does not understand standard email format, other comments

Poster	Message	Date
Charles Martin	I am looking for evite alternatives. I sent a test invitation to: 'Firstname Lastname' <emailaddress@somewhere.com> The invitation was delivered, but did not know the firstname or lastname. Since I am culling names from emails, this is an easy format to use. Since your system doesn't understand it, I probably won't use your system. Also, what is with requiring people to enter their name if it isn't already known? Please lower the bar to rsvp so that people can just click and go. Finally, the '?' picture surrogate is kind of annoying. No one is going to have a picture since none of us have used your system. Good luck - I will check your system again next time I have an event.	Tue 6/17/08 12:28 AM
Account Cancelled	Hi Charles, Thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback and suggestions. Your suggestions are good ones, and we will take them under consideration. Cheers, Larry	Tue 6/17/08 11:16 AM
Steven Rodgers	Overall, I like your system. But, I agree with Charles' comments. Many of my guests did not RSVP. I think requiring people to enter their first and last name scares them off. Clicking a yes or no box is easy. But, people are wary of entering personal information. Also, few if any of my guests will ever create a socializr profile with a picture. Therefore, my guest list consists of my single picture and 20 '?' picture surrogates. This is annoying. Perhaps you could create an option to turn off the picture function. Or, display the picture box only when a picture is available. Keep up the good work.	Thu 9/11/08 9:02 AM
Silpada Designs	I agree, I dont like to see my annoying face and only my face in every invite I send. :o)	Sat 10/4/08 12:05 PM
Account Cancelled	Thanks for all your feedback. The requirement for guests to enter their first and last name will be dropped in our next update of the site. The change has been applied to our test system and is being tested. Regarding the photos/question mark icon issue- we are evaluating some ways to improve the aesthetic of this detail. Please keep the feedback coming- your comments and suggestions are extremely valuable. Cheers, Larry	Mon 10/6/08 11:57 AM
Jonathan Abrams Socializr Team	Hi Charles, Thanks for your feedback. Socializr now understands the ''Firstname Lastname <emailaddress@somewhere.com>' format and will extract the names you enter that way when you invite people. Also, we have changed the RSVP process to NOT require the first and last name, unless you as the host require the first and last name. It is now an option you can control in your event options. It's up to you!	Tue 10/14/08 1:08 AM
Charles Martin	So the time has come to have another event - I see you fixed the email issue, that's great. But you still have those annoying blank photos for every guest. If I invite fifty people, that's fifty placeholder icons, which is absurd, not to mention a waste of screen space. I see I'm not the only one with this complaint. Please consider making this an optional 'feature'. Frankly - if you were facebook you could get away with it since everyone has a photo, but not for a standalone invite service.	Thu 1/29/09 3:38 PM
JP and Allan	I agree about the blank 'question mark' profile photos. It's a good idea gone bad and the need to change it. It's not helpful to anyone to see 50 blank photo boxes on the invite lists, and it's not reasonable to expect occasional users who are just invitees (not organizers) to upload profile photos. What would be helpful is to just see the complete list of names in the Yes, No, Maybe boxes on the event page instead of a few blank photo boxes. You shouldn't even have to click through to see the lists. If you don't want to eliminate the 'question mark' profile photos for invitees completely, then at least please create an event option that allows the organizer to toggle this on/off, with the off setting being to list the all the names instead of blank photo boxes. Thanks for considering this. Otherwise I think this service is great and much better than Evite.	Tue 7/7/09 7:26 AM