I find that it's very easy to donate items to the Goodwill or local thrift shop/secondhand store when I want to give things away. When I want to buy something or find a "treasure" I can always browse through the store and pay a minimal amount for clothes, books, toys and tools. How is Giftflow better/different?

When browsing gifts and needs in my location I would like to be able to adjust the search radius to a include a larger or smaller area. For instance, I'd love to be able to see all the New Haven gifts when searching from Northampton, MA!

Let's say someone has an account on platform like: http://communitytools.info or http://justfortheloveofit.org or whatever else and already cultivates there list of wishes and offers. With intelligent use of current technologies (like Linked Data) such person could just link to those lists in systems like http://giftflow.org http://freecycle.org http://ilovefreegle.org http://letsallshare.com http://ecomodo.com and growing...

i would like to start inviting people from all those projects to have mercy for people using them and make them all inter-operable, most likely using this working group for collaborating on it: http://www.w3.org/community/community-io/

I like when sites give people freedom to take their information with them. I would like to have possibility to export list of my needs and offers at any time...

App for Android/iPhone

Would it be possible to work with you to make a re skinned
version of existing software so we can help the public to solve
other social issues (Ideally using the http://www.TRAIDmark.org business
structure)? Maybe working with someone like
http://www.ONEworldHEALTH.org or http://www.earth.org which is closing so maybe this is something I could help you take on so everyone can share local knowledge? Also can http://www.WEBiversity.org share video's and create http://www.TRUSTlibrary.org with your team? http://www.WhymanDesign.com

The email address is visible to everyone, instead it shouldn't be shown or there should be a privacy setting.

I would really like to see strong solidarity between various services supporting sharing and helping, even if they offer alternative to each other. I have started adding some of them on http://moneyless-world.info and hope that everyone listed there will link to all the other peers sharing similar aims!

I suggest we give people the ability to add the number or amount of a certain item that they have. This way when they give a gift to somebody, they can enter how much they've given away and still have the remaining available for people to request.

This way, if there is no action in one area, there may be action close by. And, I may be able to gift to someone from another town without have to switch back and forth.

This multifaceted and deeply integrated social enterprise is conceived as a small (1/2 acre) semi-urban farm project that would strive for total economic self-sufficiency with 18-months. Food production (including value-added products) is coupled with alternative energy generation and soil building (compost) strategies to achieve potential surpluses with 2 - 3 years. The project is already 3-years in the making and poised for success as long as the rental property where it is based can be secured with a small 'lease-option' payment.

Currently clicking 'read more' on a user's review of a gift received/given goes to user profile instead of the review.

Dashboard view, gift view, needs view, and user view all suffer from usability issues. Mysterious and incoherent. Why can't I search other locations, for instance?

OpenID became widely adopted open standard for delegated authentication. Could you please enable it for giftflow? Most programming languages have available libraries for it, including PHP...

How about taking advantage from community driven translation systems like https://www.transifex.net/ to make GiftFlow available for people not speaking english?

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Hans, I can't see how to reply to your email. Glad you like the site. I've included GiftFlow.org under the group Sharing, Swapping, Giving.

It seems to me that setting expectation is very important for a site like this. So make sure people know to set proper expectations for the gift they will give or the gift that they want. For example if someone wants a computer help make sure they are very specific about what it is they need and when it needs to be done by. That way no one will be disappointed in the interaction.

post info about this site and it's launch to social news sites like Current.com. People will love it