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i did submit some of them to support last autumn, but.. well, let's try here :).
1. Very Important: please implement Payoneer payments. it's a Default payment method for all kinds of remote works on internet for years.
it's used on all normal freelancer websites: odesk.com, freelancer.com, photography stocks, forex sites, poker sites.
it's extremely efficient, low cost and very fast (several hours load time for $5, 2 days load time for $3, availability in any atm machine (банкомат) anywhere in the world).
it's used for years by all internet freelancers (programmers, photographers, gamblers, traders, etc). you just get a mastercard from payoneer and then use it to get payments in the closest atm machine, from hundreds of websites.
current italki payment methods are VERY inconvenient for most teachers from exUSSR countries.
2. one more very important things: please add a "promo lesson" option.
there should be way to carry out FREE lessons inside of the system. it will not affect italki in a bad way, because right now teachers can give free lessons anyway in skype, without italki to know.
having the ability to make promo lessons inside of italki will give teachers a chance to get new students and to improve their statistics, to get more feedback. and if some teachers don't want to provide free lessons, they don't have too. it won't affect current teachers in a bad way either, because students can have free language exchange through italki anyways, just not with the teachers. a discrimination in a way :).
with this feature teachers will have an opportunity to invite their current local students to use italki, because this way they will get their feedback and improve the stats, while italki will get more potential payers - more students. everyone is beneficiary this way.
mark promo lessons separately in stats and all teachers will always see if students are taking only promo lessons and never pay, to avoid such 'leechers'. it's good in all ways for your business, for teachers and for students.
3. please change the comments text formatting block - currently it ignores line breaks.
it's VERY frustrating to type a clean neat comment to a question and then to see it's ruined into one endless string where all the examples and explanations are turned into one line.
4. please give us a way to delete our comments. if you are afraid to lose the comments, make this feature work only in the 24 hours since the post date. but such option should exist. sometimes we post duplicates, sometimes we make a mistake and want to repost, sometimes we change change our mind. why can't we change the post? same goes about editing posts, but editing is the next step, for now at least the "delete" button would be enough.
5. please increase the field size for messages and comments.
2000 symbols is not enough. every second time i have to split my messages on 2-3 parts, which is not something deadly but an inconvenience for sure. +people receive several emails instead of just one notifying them.
Dear teachers, if you believe something of this might be useful to you, please join the discussion.
