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Odd: Pinterest seems to me like the breakout published list platform. No one said lists have to be words only: a Pinterest board is just a list with pictures.
by fomojola 11y ago
Odd: Pinterest seems to me like the breakout published list platform. No one said lists have to be words only: a Pinterest board is just a list with pictures.
- simonw 11y agoCompletely agree: Pinterest feels very much to me like a "list" application that is a huge breakout success.
- stevesearer 11y agoYeah, I agree with this idea as well. Pinterest boards are basically visual unordered lists with the default view of Pinterest bring focused on the items users can create lists with rather than of the particular lists on the site.
- callmeed 11y agoYeah, but boards don't really take center stage in Pinterest's UI. Feeds and search results are really an amalgam of various pins and boards. If I wanted to see a board of "25 Great Christmas Gifts for Under $25", it's not obvious where to look or whose board is authoritative.
- AznHisoka 11y agoA lot of people use Pinterest to build lists of gifts or whatever. That's the main use case. Discovery is secondary, in my opinion.
- yogiHacks 11y agoAnd sometimes, such as content from a poetry focused Pintrest account, a Pintrest board with a list of pictures of words...
- andrewstuart2 11y agoI'd propose most successful social sites are successful list-based services, although the default filtering/ordering is not by author, which seems to be the specific case that the article contemplates. HN, for example, allows me to go see a list of things that a majority of people in my demographic think is interesting today. Reddit, as one example of a topical social site, takes it a step further and allows users to choose their "vertical," as the author would likely state it.
- famousactress 11y agoI disagree. What makes a list a list (and not a group of cool shit) is that the list itself has (probably a lot) more value than the individual items. I'd argue the case that this is very rarely true of Pinterest boards, and Pinterest probably would also given the fact that it seems generally as a user you're confronted with a mashup of items from other people's boards, and not as often do you land on the board itself as a curated collection.
- blizkreeg 11y agoPinterest feels more like visual bookmarking and not lists.
- pravka 11y agoNext time you go grocery shopping, use Pinterest for your list . We'll see how long you stick by this statement. :)