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| Blogging - traveling Africa plus, plus Guys - as you blog your travels please add HappyCow mentions whenever it is appropriate to - so that many more "bod's" know about HappyCow & start to add great eating places - there are still big holes in the site which can be quickly filled. I have a request today from a vegan friend who is heading for Sierra Leone, West Africa in December to do voluntary work for a year - I could find no single place to recommend to her. Not even a Seventh Day Adventist place. For the past couple of months I have been having fun listing / updating all of my favorite Hong Kong eating places - revisiting a few cafes which I last went to in the 80's. I estimate that there are still 30+ just in Hong Kong which can be included. Post Date: 12/01/07, Replies: 2 | ||
| Suggestion for Forum pages Hi, apologies if this has already been suggested, but on the Forum pages, could you sort the topics by "Last Reply" instead of by "Post Date"? It would make it easier to view only new content. Thanks, Truly Post Date: 09/04/11, Replies: 2 | ||
| What is the 'Connections' icon about? On our profile pages we have 'Connections' now. What is it? Is there a blurb somewhere about it? Thanks.... Post Date: 04/14/09, Replies: 2 | ||
| suggestion: make a new icon for food cart As you seem to be adding a lot more food carts recently, it seems a good idea to come up w an icon distinguishing them as such. I suggest a cart w veggies in it. i think it would be helpful bc often many of us when wanting to go out want to dine in, and the icon would help us not search through those that are food carts. I don't mind them being listed or anything, I just think it'd be helpful to distinguish. Also while I'm at it, I think an icon for top ten places within a review is still a good idea. I really like the website and think the reviews are great, thanks for doing it. kl Post Date: 09/01/09, Replies: 2 | ||
| Most Profile views Dear WebmasterEric, On HappyCows stats page, www.happycow.net/reports/happycow_stats.html i think it would be cool if you could list who has the most profile views. Post Date: 02/16/10, Replies: 2 | ||
| Home page members Everyday on the home page of HappyCow there are 3 members listed, i was wondering why those certain members are listed? Post Date: 02/19/10, Replies: 2 | ||
| Vegan tip of the day I think it would be nice if on the home page there was a place for a 'vegan tip of the day.' A brief tidbit or helpful hint on surviving in the meat driven world. It could be anything, form a product to avoid, to a trick on making veggies fun for kids. Post Date: 08/20/12, Replies: 2 | ||
| My dad's birthday...ruined My dad wanted to go to a BBQ restaurant for his birthday. I said sure. Get off work, come home, change clothes, leave house. Go into the restaurant. Everything is ok, seems like it would be fine to eat there since I am used to watching them eat meat in front of me. Pick up menu, nothing healthy except fries and a salad. Waiter comes over, asks for drinks, etc. Mom orders, dad orders, I order fries and a salad with dressing on the side no meat. Waiter comes over with food, gives me french fries and salad. But wait. Wtf is this? White stuff? Parmesan cheese? I decide not to waste it, just give it to mom in a doggy bag. Feel guilty for trying to go out to eat with parents, since everytime I go out with them I can never eat anything because I eat so [censored]ing weird. Start to wimper, take a sip of water, run to restroom. Go to a stall, bawl my eyes out silenty for 10 minutes against the wall. Sitting, thinking, what am I doing? Why is life have to be so difficult? Go back to tabel, mom and dad are asking where I was, tell them I was in the restroom. Grab salad, walk outside before they do, stare into sky and keep pondering and still trying to hold in the tears that I have about this. Mom asks if I am crying, I tell her I am not. Get into car, they apologize for asking me to come out, I tell them it's not their fault "I am so [censored]ing weird and obscure". Go home, keep silent the entire drive. Get into house, run upstairs to my room, shut my door. Brushing off the salad would be an option. Still wouldn't eat it. I am lactose intolerant. Not being able to eat anything with my family is the worst feeling in the entire world. I hate it. Every goddamn family reunion and gathering has all been the same: no one makes anything that I eat because I am just a picky eater. Really, I have no sense of why I do this sometimes. What am I doing this for? Then I look outside, at my dog, at the flowers, at the birds, squirrels, insects.....I realize what I do this for. I want to end all of the things that people think as being healthy. I have read a bunch of short stories but they were Star Trek. One story was of people that couldn't stand Earth, so they go develope their own planet free from their ignorance. I want to do that. It's what I want is to be with people as weird as me who don't eat any animals or anything from them. And then I will tell my grandchildren of how people used to eat brutally killed animals for nutrients and they would think I was telling a horror story and think of these people as ignorant and stupid people or they would think I was fibbing or telling a lie. Unfortuneately, I only dream of this and the present can only change if I do something but there is nothing for me to change. I cannot change any others for being ignorant. I know now, that although I may be ignorant for not eating animals, I still feel happy being who I am and no one can change me for that. Post Date: 07/08/13, Replies: 2 | ||
| Favorite books I'm aware of hundreds of books on animal rights and related issues. I'd like to see members create a master list by suggesting their favorites. Here are my current Top Ten: Neither Man Nor Beast...........Carol Adams When Elephants Weep.............Jeffrey Masson An Unnatural Order..............Jim Mason Eternal Treblinka...............Charles Patterson Intimate Nature.................Linda Hogan Biological Exuberance...........Bruce Bagemihl Terrorists or Freedom Fighters..Best and Nocella Animal Liberation...............Peter Singer Man and the Natural World.......Keith Thomas Dominance and Affection.........Yi-Fu Tuan Most of these authors have also published other great books... Post Date: 11/22/13, Replies: 2 | ||
| Cruelty Free and Vegan blogger here :) Just thought i would share with you lovely people my cruelty free and vegan blog with :) Post Date: 05/21/14, Replies: 2 | ||
| I wish scrolling map would update listings The most intuitive way for me to search for new restaurants is to bring up a starting location and then pan and zoom the map. For example, if I'm on a road trip, I might want to scroll along the highway I'm taking. This doesn't really work though: once you scroll beyond the initial search city, no new listings appear. Maybe it's just me, but I find this terribly annoying, and it's awkward to go back to the previous screen, choose a new city for the next search, etc. this seems to be a problem on the Phone app (iOS) too. Maybe I'm missing something? Post Date: 07/17/14, Replies: 2 | ||
| Filter places by opening time When you are visiointi a new city on sunday for example it would be nice to ne able to filter which places are open that day. Also the time of the day, to see which ones are open before 10 for example Post Date: 08/07/14, Replies: 2 | ||
| Restaurant removed listing, then adds new? Hi! A bit of an ethics questing here maybe.. :) www.happycow.net/reviews/govindas-stockholm-19671 This restaurant has been on happycow for several years and used to have quite a lot of reviews, one from me as well. BUT, the old listing (and all of the mostly mediocre reviews) has been removed and there´s a "fresh" listing up with only good reviews. Question is, is this allowed? Seems a bit dishonest to just start a new listing when there´s lot´s of review you don´t like? Post Date: 01/06/15, Replies: 2 | ||
| suggestions - ability to enlarge and zoom into photos (especially handy when someone has uploaded a photo of a menu, namecard or map). some websites do it by showing the enlarged version on a pop-up window. - ability to edit/delete photos after posting - mistakes do happen, some of which are hardly worth troubling the happycow team (eg typos, having uploaded a wrong photo, or wanting to upload a better photo of a similar dish on a second visit) - leaving a review without a rating. one instance where i see this happening is for a stall that i would not patronise because of personal preference but can still observe neutrally, e.g. a sidewalk stall that sells mainly gluten dishes. Post Date: 09/16/15, Replies: 2 | ||
| Reviews without a Rating Hi everyone, We've had many requests to allow members to rate a listing without adding a review. In our discussions so far it seems like a bad idea since there is no accountability, and could easily hurt a restaurant's business without offering any feedback to owners who care to improve. Would be great to get your ideas / suggestions regarding this as well here in this thread. Thanks, Eric Post Date: 09/16/15, Replies: 2 | ||
| make chat easier to find? Hi -- So glad you've brought back chat (I hear, from a couple chat friends) -- but -- where is it?? I'm loooooking..... /me wonders if blue turtle or beatnik or anomaly have found out how to get there yet.... THANK YOU!! Post Date: 06/03/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Changing language I just download the app and it's all on Hebrew and I don't know how to change, so how can I change the language?! Post Date: 06/04/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| window sticker Hey! Recently i had lunch somewhere where they had a happycow sticker on the window with their star rating on it. Was it self made, or an official happycow thing? If the latter, how could i get one for my shop? Post Date: 08/06/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Site Suggestion: Taiwan is not an SAR While searching for Hong Kong, I just discovered Taiwan is listed under the heading, "Special Administrative Regions". This is totally incorrect. While the status of Taiwan may be disputed, it has never been claimed to be one of China's Special Administrative Regions (SAR) - of course not by Taiwan, but also not by PRC. The webpage of PRC's Department of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs states that it: "develops diplomatic policies concerning the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), Macao SAR and Taiwan" (www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zzjg_663340/gats_665294/) Note that it does not use Taiwan SAR. Suggestion: Remove Taiwan from that section. Not only is it propagating incorrect info, it can be viewed as a gesture by Happy Cow that is offensive (imposing its own resolution of the dispute), terribly ignorant of the area it is discussing, and misleading to readers. Taiwan is already listed under Asia. If the purpose is to provide a link for people searching for Taiwan under China, then simply label it as such, for example: "Looking for Taiwan (R.O.C)? Click here". That way Happy Cow does not appear to be partisan in the dispute. Post Date: 07/31/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Make forums searchable It'd be great to have a way to search the forums by keyword. Like for this suggestion - no clue if someone's already submitted it! I scrolled through 1 page of suggestions, but stopped there. That's probably pretty typical of how people search for information without an option to plug in keywords. Post Date: 12/07/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Sync My Trips created on website to Mobile How do I get my Trips created on the computer on the mobile? Post Date: 12/07/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| API for the website? Hi, I've written the "Gary bot", which runs on the www.reddit.com/r/vegan subreddit. He responds to common queries about veganism, so - for example - typing @Gary! Nutrition will return a list of websites talking about vegan nutrition. That's a long-winded introduction to my real question. A common question on /r/vegan is: "I'm visiting x city, where can I eat?" I'm hoping to add functionality to Gary, so that you can type: @Gary! London and he responds with the best vegan restaurants in London. I can maintain the responses manually, but it would be helpful if I could script Gary to query an API on HappyCow to get the results. That's a long-winded preamble to the actual question, which is: Is there currently an available API on HappyCow that I could use for this purpose? Thanks for any help you can give. All the best Matt Post Date: 02/10/17, Replies: 2 | ||
| Publish your avatar dimensions for new use Hi there I'm new here and can't upload an avatar - a message the dimensions of my image are wrong. Don't know what the dimensions should be? How does anyone ever upload their photo? The image I'm trying to use is tiny as well. Thanks. Post Date: 01/13/17, Replies: 2 | ||
| Mapping Places It would be very useful to be able to get up maps to restaurants, hotels etc. and to have them alongside the other information so it can all be printed off together. It would also be great to have maps or other ways of grouping together restaurants that are nearby each other/​in the same section of town. Country maps would also be useful showing the towns with places listed on the site. Post Date: 06/20/07, Replies: 1 | ||
| No html links? I can understand blocking out some HTML, but links as well? How are we supposed to link to vital stuff both in this website, and other websites? Many sites make a mistake by not allowing linking in their forums. They feel it will make their visitors go elsewhere while in reality, it improves the websites value in the webiverse. Search engines don't like websites very much that keep to themselves... they like websites that are linked to, and websites that link out. Highly recommend allowing the ability to link and creating headings, otherwise its all just the same text and not much possibility to quickly scan a piece of content to see if its relevant. peace Post Date: 06/27/08, Replies: 1 | ||
| another suggestion for review page On a state page, it may be helpful to also have the filter that says both HF and cafes, or cafes only or HF only. If seeking a cafe on the road, it can help isolate more easily if seeking a cafe to eat rather than HF offerings. thanks Post Date: 10/04/08, Replies: 1 | ||
| HappyCow Voted Favorite Vegetarian Website Hey Everyone: For the 3rd year in a row, HappyCow has been voted "Favorite Vegetarian Website" in the Veggie Awards sponsored by VegNews magazine. Official announcements will be made public in the Nov+Dec magazine issue. This means that for every year that we've been nominated, we've won! Our humble journey and incredible achievements have been made possible because of supporters like YOU. Your generosity and dedication to the vegetarian movement makes us all stronger and the planet healthier. We thank you. The cows thank you, too! - The HappyCow team Post Date: 10/30/09, Replies: 1 |
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