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This is great! I was just thinking about StumbleUpon the other day and wishing it were still a thing. I have a whole folder full of awesome bookmarks (half of w

by Dig1t 6y ago

This is great! I was just thinking about StumbleUpon the other day and wishing it were still a thing. I have a whole folder full of awesome bookmarks (half of which are dead now) I found using StumbleUpon.

ALittleLight 6y ago
Thanks. A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site, so I recreated what I remembered was the core functionality (click button, get random site).
- thaumasiotes 6y ago
  > A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site I don't know what StumbleUpon is like now, but it was always a social media site; a major feature was the stumpleupon comments page associated with any actual page.
- taylodl 6y ago
  One of the things you could do with the original StumbleUpon is stumble by category. I had categories for my hobbies and it was really fun to stumble on different pages relating to one of my hobbies. As it is, this is fun and takes you to sites you'd never have gone to on your own! Another idea - people have already mentioned the ability to report pages but I think it'd be cool to be able to upvote a page. Then for each category you could have a rolling leaderboard of the most upvoted pages in the past 7 days or whatever. Some people might just want to look at that, or look at that in addition to getting rando pages. Good luck!
  - ALittleLight 6y ago
    Thank you. Categories are a good idea. One category I've thought about is videos as a few people submit those and I've been rejecting them because they don't seem like webpages. Putting them in their own category might solve that though. As far as upvotes, there is currently a heart button you can click next to the website on the history section. Not very discoverable (looking at the metrics about 1 stumble in a thousand is getting a heart). Right now the hearts don't do anything but serve as a reminder for a user that they liked a page. I've thought about possibilities to incorporate that into the algorithm (e.g. more likely to get websites that have higher like rates) and having a leaderboard is a good idea too, though I worry that it would give an incentive to manipulate the like buttons. Creating a new user right now is as easy as just generating a random string, so a bad actor could easily cause infinite likes to a page.
    - dorchadas 6y ago
      If you could implement categories, I think this could be almost perfect. I've found that's what I really miss about StumbleUpon. Being able to randomly stumble upon things from a variety of categories that interested me was really great. Found plenty of awesome things through there my freshmen year of college.

by Dig1t 6y ago

ALittleLight 6y ago

Thanks. A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site, so I recreated what I remembered was the core functionality (click button, get random site).

thaumasiotes 6y ago
> A while back I was trying to find the original StumbleUpon and discovered it had become some kind of social media site I don't know what StumbleUpon is like now, but it was always a social media site; a major feature was the stumpleupon comments page associated with any actual page.
taylodl 6y ago
One of the things you could do with the original StumbleUpon is stumble by category. I had categories for my hobbies and it was really fun to stumble on different pages relating to one of my hobbies. As it is, this is fun and takes you to sites you'd never have gone to on your own! Another idea - people have already mentioned the ability to report pages but I think it'd be cool to be able to upvote a page. Then for each category you could have a rolling leaderboard of the most upvoted pages in the past 7 days or whatever. Some people might just want to look at that, or look at that in addition to getting rando pages. Good luck!
- ALittleLight 6y ago
  Thank you. Categories are a good idea. One category I've thought about is videos as a few people submit those and I've been rejecting them because they don't seem like webpages. Putting them in their own category might solve that though. As far as upvotes, there is currently a heart button you can click next to the website on the history section. Not very discoverable (looking at the metrics about 1 stumble in a thousand is getting a heart). Right now the hearts don't do anything but serve as a reminder for a user that they liked a page. I've thought about possibilities to incorporate that into the algorithm (e.g. more likely to get websites that have higher like rates) and having a leaderboard is a good idea too, though I worry that it would give an incentive to manipulate the like buttons. Creating a new user right now is as easy as just generating a random string, so a bad actor could easily cause infinite likes to a page.
  - dorchadas 6y ago
    If you could implement categories, I think this could be almost perfect. I've found that's what I really miss about StumbleUpon. Being able to randomly stumble upon things from a variety of categories that interested me was really great. Found plenty of awesome things through there my freshmen year of college.