Hi LaughAtSky, you have some fantastic suggestions on functionality here, so I will quote and answer each one of them below.

Personalised front page: I love how the front page displays Snapzu's top content in graphical tiles. I find this look very visually appealing. I would like to be able to restrict this to just my tribes though.

A personalized front page would be extremely resource intensive to create for everyone at this time. We are however working on expanding the front page into 11 additional categories that will each have their own grid generation as well as 10 pages of content (just like the front page now). While this may not be as good as showing a custom generated front page we hope its enough to suit the needs of most users. In the future, when we are able to dedicate additional servers to this task, we can expand this functionality into custom filtered front pages.

Mark as Read: when browsing through items, I would like to be able to hide items that I have read or are not interested in reading

Mark as read is an awesome idea, and it's something we would like to introduce as soon as possible, but we have one thing currently holding us back from implementation. Caching. We just cannot live-serve a lot of these high traffic pages due to the limitations of our current setup. Our biggest obstacle is that during any spike in traffic our database server would be overwhelmed by requests if caching was not implemented. Caching prevents this and allows us to have a much more stable environment, which means a stable service for everyone. This is not to say we will never have mark as read functionality, we just can't have it right now.

Reporting Function: there should be a way to report snaps or comments at the click of a button. Or is that what the downvotes do? Do mods get notified whenever anyone downvotes anything?

If you visit a snap, you will notice that down voting the snap will slide out a little "Reason?" button from the right of the...

Hi LaughAtSky, you have some fantastic suggestions on functionality here, so I will quote and answer each one of them below.

Personalised front page: I love how the front page displays Snapzu's top content in graphical tiles. I find this look very visually appealing. I would like to be able to restrict this to just my tribes though.

A personalized front page would be extremely resource intensive to create for everyone at this time. We are however working on expanding the front page into 11 additional categories that will each have their own grid generation as well as 10 pages of content (just like the front page now). While this may not be as good as showing a custom generated front page we hope its enough to suit the needs of most users. In the future, when we are able to dedicate additional servers to this task, we can expand this functionality into custom filtered front pages.

Mark as Read: when browsing through items, I would like to be able to hide items that I have read or are not interested in reading

Mark as read is an awesome idea, and it's something we would like to introduce as soon as possible, but we have one thing currently holding us back from implementation. Caching. We just cannot live-serve a lot of these high traffic pages due to the limitations of our current setup. Our biggest obstacle is that during any spike in traffic our database server would be overwhelmed by requests if caching was not implemented. Caching prevents this and allows us to have a much more stable environment, which means a stable service for everyone. This is not to say we will never have mark as read functionality, we just can't have it right now.

Reporting Function: there should be a way to report snaps or comments at the click of a button. Or is that what the downvotes do? Do mods get notified whenever anyone downvotes anything?

If you visit a snap, you will notice that down voting the snap will slide out a little "Reason?" button from the right of the down vote icon. Clicking it will launch a popover with a number of options. The functionality is better covered in our recent blog post, so please have a read.

Thanks again for taking the time to post your suggestions, we appreciate it!