Open question: suggestions to improve the Europeana website

Question:

Do you have a suggestion (or more) to improve the Europeana website? (members newsletter; n=963)

28% of all respondents had a tip to improve the website, the rest had no tip (don't know). Many tips relate to practical matters, such as user aspects. Below are some quotes:

“Make the website more known!!
Kindly give more detailed feedback whether or not content uploaded will be ever

reviewed. And the bulk upload (e.g. for a booklet) doesn't work - my browser is firefox.

Searching is weak, unless you are prepared to look and look and look. The actual collections can be wonderful, and the blogs and stories are good but very hidden in a confusing website.

It would be great to have an advanced search function (like in libraries catalogues) because the filters are sometimes confusing. Also, I miss the possibility of searching only public domain material - it was available before but now it's not there anymore. Also, I liked the possibility of looking through 96 pictures without the need to click through, so when searching I use classic Europeana. I am reading very often different exhibitions, so I bookmarked the page but when I tried to found it on a university computer once, I couldn't find the exhibitions from the home page - don't know why they are hidden. and when I tried to find an exhibition about edible plants and I put the term in search bar it didn't show up at all. So in the end, I just google it.

“I have never been clear what the purpose of Europeana is, who runs it etc - it is not clear from emails or from the website. If this was clearer, perhaps my answers to previous questions might have been more positive. I follow things in newsletter up if they catch my interest - but I'm not sure what Europeana is meant to be doing.

Text search does not seem to be possible for the newspaper collection. Either I have missed the text search function (in which case it is not sufficiently visible) or there is none (which is disappointing for a newspaper collection).

I am from Mexico, I love your website and I think you need more content in Spanish so I can share ir with family and friends who do not speak-read English and would love your website. Thank you

It's sometimes difficult to find, or go back to, a specific article, collection.

Maybe have more publicity on social media? Not sure whether you are on Instagram, Facebook.

If the purpose is to give an idea of what european archives are keeping, what
Europeana is doing is reasonably satisfactory, but it evolves to slowly. If the idea is to” provide access to texts, Europeana needs to suffer significant improvements

Improve navigability turning more clear were to click to find the full items from a given ” collection (ex: in Angela Davis ones talk about blog text and I can't find them).