On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Luke Tucker wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Sonali Sridhar wrote:
Yeah this could be an easy win. I'd also like to see a reworking
of the follower / following presentation and workflow. My feeling
on this is that twitter basically has it right. Present some
sampling for other users to use for discovery, show the full list
paged elsewhere with search.
I would be weary of this - remember Melkjug is yet not about the
friend making and finding. Its about the reading - we should get
that step right before making it a social portal. All the hooks
might be in for that but people can get tired of seeing "yet
another social network". We might want to bring out the power of
the network in more subtle manners rather than pictures.
Sure - I'm not advocating turning melkjug into an also-ran social
network - but I do think that it's a shortcoming right now that we
don't expose *any* information about what's popular (or any good
mechanism for finding new feeds you might be interested in reading).
Its important for us to hone in on the sliders and that experience.
No one is doing that too well right now. FB is but in terms of
managing ones taste(its buried). We have a HUGE potential to get
that nailed. Lets not make it a social network right from the start
- if it calls for it we can slowly open that up (but we need
critical mass for that to happen)
I agree that tuning a feed is fundamental to what makes melkjug an
interesting space.
True true, I wholly agree -- it's not the core idea and we shouldn't
go too far down that road. I bring up twitter because I think
twitter is about as lightweight as you get unless you're suggesting
we drop follower/following altogether (always a possibility too...)
Even barring that, my concern is that we need to do away with the
extremely-long-lists-of-text in the sidebars for the things we
already present. I think the grid presentation of a slice of that
data with that twitter is maybe a better model. I'm open to better
solutions too... :D
Along these lines, I think we should enable collapsing the "News
Sources" list of feeds (perhaps collapsed by default?) - for cases
with more than a handful of feeds, that becomes a lot of visual clutter.
- Luke
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