Thank you. This is awesome. StumbleUpon is the greatest.
"Any comments or suggestions on this new system are appreciated"
I would like to suggest an option to be informed when someone has subscribed or requested mutual friendship. Preferably a message sent to my inbox. This is an option that could be turned on or off by both parties.
Another suggestion dsc501 made long ago:
Add a checkbox or something to each friend on your friends list - mutual or not - that allows you to allow or disallows that friend from influencing your stumbles.
I would love to have the option of playing with subscriptions without the hassle of anyone knowing my movements. I think this would empower the user to subscribe/friend based upon increasing the quality of your stumbles without the hassle of explanations..etc.
11: I got the impression that subscriptions will be as they are now - you can subscribe to anyone you like - but that becoming friends will require you to accept someone's friend request - that's how things work on most social networks. This idea works for me - you need to confirm social friends, whereas content relationships are down to the people making them.
This is a pretty major change, and I think it will be greatly received. Thanks for the hard work guys.
One thing that interests me: How this system is implemented in terms of existing friends. Will all existing friends be made subscriptions, or social, or both?
Will we have the ability to see 1000 on the what's new tab or decide who is on the what's new tab?
CastorQuinn
Aug 6, 2008 8:15pm
16: I would suggest that the What's New tab function as it always has but with content subscriptions appearing there, not social friends. As the purpose is to split social and content functions, and the What's New tab shows stumbles, that would make the most sense to me.
However they may be cause to add a "blog tracker" - basically a What's New page but for social friends not stumbles. That would have to be secondary to the stumbling content though in my opinion, as the stumbles are the point of being here.
That kind of works itself out, doesn't it ? If you have a social friend whos stumbles you want to see you would subscribe, so a 'whats new' list based exclusively on subscriptions would be a mix of non-friend subscriptions plus any social friends where you wanted to see their stumbles too. Social friends whose stumbles you weren't interested in I guess you'd keep up with via msg or sending stumbles ? That would work for me I think
My thoughts are that the What's New Tab would become cluttered and useless if you mutual too many. Just a thought...
CastorQuinn
Aug 6, 2008 9:14pm
Actually, that's a good point. A lot of the people I add as friends are there because they write a lot of reviews. Already I have problems with people vanishing off the list on very active days, and that'll get worse if there are more friends showing up there.
A long time ago a request was made for the What's New page to be incremented like blog pages, so we can see more than one page of recent activity. Perhaps this would be a good time to suggest that again, for those of us with large numbers (and soon to grow larger) of very active friends. Even two pages would be a vast improvement.
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