On Mar 20, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Christopher Patterson wrote:
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).
Agreed - provide fodder
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.
also something in trac that helps is some form of color coding. All
news feeds are some color and all entertainment feeds etc... now i am
just throwing it out there without really pondering over it. But lets
make a plan to work on some of this? Next week?
s
- Luke
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