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I love the sound of this. But wouldn't it be productive for users to initially "seed" a category (say, Movies) by entering a handful of films they liked and on
by steveharman 6y ago
I love the sound of this. But wouldn't it be productive for users to initially "seed" a category (say, Movies) by entering a handful of films they liked and ones they didn't like?
Rather than being at the mercy of suggested movies which, in my experience of using Findka, 80% I hadn't watched. Thus I couldn't like or dislike so the system carried on showing me more and more content suggestions that weren't increasing in relevance as they had no input data.
I'm sure by simple maths over extended use I would inevitably see movies I could express a preference on, but I must be on "Refresh 50" now and only managed to vote on a tiny number of suggestions.
Also in the name of speeding up the process of identifying movies (or whatever) that I liked and disliked, would it be possible to like/dislike all three suggested items per screen before moving on to the next batch? atm as soon as one "vote" is placed the system throws out three more - when I could well have wanted to express a view on the other items that were presented.
Findka is a great idea btw! :-)
- jacobobryant 6y agoBoth of those things are in fact implemented :). For seeding items, go to the "Add" page and there's a search bar (on desktop, it's in the sidebar; on mobile, you have to open the hamburger menu). I'll probably move the search bar to the main page to make it more discoverable.[1] When you rate an item, are you sure all three items get replaced? If you rate one item, the ones below it should be moved up, and then the item on the bottom will be new. So if you rate the top item, you'll see a visual change in all items, but the other two items will still be there. Perhaps I should replace rated items in place without moving the others. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542880