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Needs some sort of sorting or highlighting of 'upvoted/liked' messages. Afaict this is just a bunch of ad-hoc chatrooms built off user generated topics. I am
by cwkoss 5y ago
Needs some sort of sorting or highlighting of 'upvoted/liked' messages.
Afaict this is just a bunch of ad-hoc chatrooms built off user generated topics. I am not interested in reading the entire feed of strangers' thoughts, give me a way to see the 'best'. Having to sift through the uninteresting messages to find the good ones is why forums have largely died.
That is the differentiating factor that made Reddit and Twitter (implemented eventually) popular, and you're missing it.
- holler 5y agoI agree there should be a way to highlight top messages, and we've discussed it on the site a few times. Just haven't come up with the implementation yet! My main goal was getting the core chat piece working solid before building stuff around it, but I appreciate the feedback and hear you!
- gunapologist99 5y ago> Needs some sort of sorting or highlighting of 'upvoted/liked' messages. Also known as an algorithmic "feed"?
- iinnPP 5y agoI feel like this is the kind of thing that leads to the extreme political divides we, hopefully, all hate. It promotes the same clickbait ragebait mentality that ads do.
- holler 5y agoThat's why I didn't include any voting at all in the site. That said I think it'd be nice to have a way to somehow highlight message(s) within a post, so anyone can get a sort of run-down on key moments of the conversation. It's something we've discussed but haven't settled on a way to implement yet.
- jimkleiber 5y agoWould you be more interested in reading a feed/chat of the thoughts of a select few people? In other words, if the chat thread creator could restrict who could chat, so the feed doesn't get so overwhelmed? Almost like a text-based version of Clubhouse?
- holler 5y agoHey Jim! Thought about checking in with you recently :)
- jimkleiber 5y agoHaha I saw this and figured I'd chime in :-)
- cwkoss 5y agoWatching a chatroom of important people chatting doesn't sound terribly compelling, would need some sort of interaction/audience feedback mechanism and feels like it could get a bit podcasty, which many like but just not for me. Tools to dynamically manage visibility of certain voices in the stream could be interesting. Like what if text size/color scaled with vote score - so annoying voices would shrink until hardly visible. Global per user weight score mixed with a personally configurable list of score offsets for any user previously interacted with could be neat. If you like what someone is saying, their future messages show up more clearly. When I browse through the rooms, the only messages visible on the screen are whatever was said recently - the only way to get 'caught up' is scroll through the entire thing. What is shown often doesn't seem connected to the topic. could be interesting to load the top N messages of the channel's entire history with 'expand' options in between each one which loads the top M messages within that range.
- Multicomp 5y agoI would like this feature, then if you want to have your stuff posted to said restricted room, and you are not a member of the approved posters group, you could post your post and it would go into moderation, and if a given text poster thinks your messages worth posting, they could ungate it from moderation to actual post, where your text would show up as 'your user says X approved by 'approved user' and potentially add you permissions to post in replies and branches to your approved posts if they want to deputize you as a partially approved poster