Does your Portfolio page have a big blank space above undisbursed loans?

[Guest]

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[Diane R]

Below the title "Raised, but not started loans" and the first such not-yet-disbursed loan in my My Portfolio page, there is and has always been a lot of blank space. Sometimes more space than other times (I thought maybe it increased based on how many non-disbursed loans I had, but that doesn't seem to always correlate), but always there is this big blank space.

Is this something others see, too?  It's not a big problem, but it's kind of annoying, maybe I should write to someone and ask if it's a bug?  (Having been a programmer in a past life, I can easily imagine where the extra blanks are coming from.)

--Diane (waiting for UPS to deliver my darned Harry Potter v7 already for pete's sake!).

[Kay]

Yes, I see it, too.

[Henry]

If I do a cut and paste (To highlight) in that area I have 3 line spaces before the column headers start.

(can you imagine the number of those books UPS and Fed Ex will be delivering today?) 

[Diane R]

OK I sent a screenshot of the blank spaces to the Kiva folks in an email.  I'm sure they have more important things to do, but just a small usability fix like this would be a nice touch, giving the Portfolio a more professional and polished look.  Thanks for the sanity check!

--Diane.
(PS: My screenshot also included the first nondisbursed loan, from JUNE 3.  Still no response from the MFI nor Kiva on that one...)

[QueenOfHearts]

If I do a cut and paste (To highlight) in that area I have 3 line spaces before the column headers start.

(can you imagine the number of those books UPS and Fed Ex will be delivering today?) 

My lender page looks okay....hmmmmm...Henry, I was at the bookstore yesterday to pick up my reserved copy and I stood by the huge display they had set up as you first entered the store.  Not one person who came in did not pick up a copy...adult or child.

Queen

[Diane R]

I sent an email with screenshot to Kiva about this problem on 7/21 (last Sat.) and received this response from Liz Harmon that night:

Dear Diane,

Thank you very much for catching this error!

I will forward your email onto Kiva's web engineers, so that they can look into this issue.

Best wishes,

Liz Harmon

I received this response from her today:

Hi Diane,

I just wanted to let you know that Kiva's web engineers have solved this issue, and the fix will hit the website with our next release, which will occur in the next two weeks.

Best wishes and thanks so much for supporting Kiva.org,

Liz Harmon

YAY!  A fix for the big blank space! 
(And ooooh! A new release! Wonder what cool new features it will have for us to mess around with! )

--Diane.

[Henry]

AND!  even more good news! 

I sent :

Is it out of the question to hope you could add a "User Field" or two
> attached to our loans where we could enter our own comment, name or
> identifier into the loans in our account?  For example:  if my mother
> a non-computer person would like to fund a loan, after we fund it and
> it shows up in my account I would be able to type "Mothers Loan" into that field?
>
> ALSO...man i'm asking for a lot!
>
> Could you make an option to download our loan info into a database
> file or exell file that we could play with?  So that with each loan we
> could have access to all the data (except for what you find private)
> including journals?
>
> Thanks, I know your busy, but just asking so I can have something to
> look forward to, or work around.
>
> Henry

Liz, (a busy person today apparently!)

We really appreciate your feedback.  I am happy to write that Kiva will be releasing some new social networking features on the site soon.  These features may address your first request.

I can't wait to find out what a 'social networking feature is'.