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a news aggregator that works. one where each person using it fills it with all sorts of metadata regarding why they liked/disliked a post/comment/embed etc, an

by basch 10y ago

a news aggregator that works. one where each person using it fills it with all sorts of metadata regarding why they liked/disliked a post/comment/embed etc, and then lets me use all the tagged metadata around content to sort it, possibly with some AI to help me. slashdot seemed like it was on the right track, then the simplicity of the like/upvote threw complex out the window. buzzfeed came back with wtf/lol, but its not the same.

ge96 10y ago
Then I use my Bluetooth earpiece and the news is read to me. - Watched the movie Her too many times
lj3 10y ago
I don't think the complexity of the voting system had a huge impact on why Slashdot waned in popularity. That said, I can see a simpler system where it asks you why you upvoted or downvoted and provides multiple pre-set "reasons" for you to click on. The problem is using those responses to find something you want to read. Tastes and interests change over time. You might be obsessed with electric cars for a month, then want to read anything but electric cars the next month. That's the problem with using past data in this case; it's not a great predictor of the future. Social sharing of information from actual people is better and we already have lots of that. So what's missing? Why do we feel news "aggregators" like Twitter and facebook aren't good enough?
- basch 10y ago
  i think the complexity of tagging, moderation, and metamoderation stunted slashdots growth. digg and reddit were much easier to pick up.
nougatine 10y ago
Prismatic was pretty good, but they had to stop due to lack of interest (and money).
- basch 10y ago
  prismatic was a good idea but it never worked for me. maybe i seeded it with bad information, maybe i used it wrong. prismatic always gave me clickbait, it surfaced things that sort of interested me, but i didnt feel fulfilled after consuming them. conversely, redef.com and aldaily.com and my personal facebook lists, along with hckrnews and techmeme and longform are a lot of work to browse through, but return very high quality results.

by basch 10y ago

ge96 10y ago

Then I use my Bluetooth earpiece and the news is read to me. - Watched the movie Her too many times

lj3 10y ago

I don't think the complexity of the voting system had a huge impact on why Slashdot waned in popularity. That said, I can see a simpler system where it asks you why you upvoted or downvoted and provides multiple pre-set "reasons" for you to click on. The problem is using those responses to find something you want to read. Tastes and interests change over time. You might be obsessed with electric cars for a month, then want to read anything but electric cars the next month. That's the problem with using past data in this case; it's not a great predictor of the future. Social sharing of information from actual people is better and we already have lots of that. So what's missing? Why do we feel news "aggregators" like Twitter and facebook aren't good enough?

basch 10y ago
i think the complexity of tagging, moderation, and metamoderation stunted slashdots growth. digg and reddit were much easier to pick up.

nougatine 10y ago

Prismatic was pretty good, but they had to stop due to lack of interest (and money).

basch 10y ago
prismatic was a good idea but it never worked for me. maybe i seeded it with bad information, maybe i used it wrong. prismatic always gave me clickbait, it surfaced things that sort of interested me, but i didnt feel fulfilled after consuming them. conversely, redef.com and aldaily.com and my personal facebook lists, along with hckrnews and techmeme and longform are a lot of work to browse through, but return very high quality results.