Okay, we don't have bugs that severe in MSN Spaces… I think.

However there are two questions that seem to persistently come up in blog posts, comments, and support e-mail: One pertains to a hard to find feature, the other is a feature that was officially cut due to time constraints but in Spaces there's a trick to get the job done, just the same.

First, your photo module plays a slideshow of the first/top album in the list. There's no UI elements or instructions indicating that you have the ability (in IE6) to reorder the albums via drag and drop. Drag any album to the topmost position and it's now the default slide show.

…Okay, you say. You already knew that. Well here's one that many on our own team didn't know. How do your order items in your list modules?

The query used by our storage system currently retrieves items sorted by the time the item was last updated, from oldest to newest. Thus to order something like your book list perform the following:

 1. Select "Edit list" from the module's menu
 2. Find the item you want to be the first in the list and click "Edit", then click "Save" with out making any changes.
 3. Then find the item you want to be second in the list… "Edit", "Save", etc., etc…

(Ensure you do this to all items in the list or the ones you miss will precede the first one you edited)

These are two usability issues we're likely to address before getting out of the beta stage; many here will push for that. But hopefully this info will provide a workaround until that time.

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Response to Comments: ShadyRudy922

You didn't drop the ball. What you're seeing is a bug that's affecting a few of our users. Most created a space on day one or two of the service (See my post on bugs). After reading that post, if you decide *not* to create a new space, holding on to the name that you already have, I'll request that MSN operations verify the fix by testing it out with your space (as I'm doing with the other two spaces listed in the bugs post).