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This is pretty accurate. We have some proposals in development for 2 and 3 but it won't be soon. 1 and 4 are straightforward. The rest take QoL hours. Probably

by pfraze 2y ago

This is pretty accurate. We have some proposals in development for 2 and 3 but it won't be soon. 1 and 4 are straightforward. The rest take QoL hours. Probably an unnamed 5th bullet point is finding experience novelty which make the other 4 less important. We did novel things with algorithms and moderation, but we'd be smart to do novel things with the core product loop.

arromatic 2y ago
Is there going to be a "for you" feed like twitter that algorithmically finds post you are interested based on what you search or browse ?
- Freedom2 2y ago
  I thought this community was against algorithmic feeds? Shows what I know about Hacker News commenters.
  - fragmede 2y ago
    Thinking HN commenters are a singular monolithic group with one shared opinion, in unison, is probably your first mistake.
  - AlienRobot 2y ago
    In my opinion people don't like algorithmic feeds because they're used to feeds with bias to politics, drama, and clickbait. When the algorithm can find you more cute cat pictures, it's a godsend.
AlienRobot 2y ago
You want a novel feature? Consider this. Right now, only Tumblr and Youtube allow you to create separate profiles with a single account. If I follow this guy who posts his comics in his account, unless he's exceptionally good at social media (they aren't), he'll use the same account to blog, and 9/10 of his posts will be blog posts. I was trying to build a list of photographers and I had to repeatedly use the "Media" tab to figure out if a guy who says he's a photographer in his bio actually posts any photos on his profile or it's all just hot takes. Why can't I have a "Media" tab for "Photos I took myself"? Over a decade ago DeviantArt had folders. Most of the posts I see don't even have hashtags. I think if you let users define something like "my hashtags" where you could quickly find all their posts by a hashtag, and also let users follow only posts of a user that contains a hashtag, you would make hashtags actually relevant in a platform that lets you do full text search. To explain better: the photographer would set "#photography" in their "My Hashtags" settings, for example, and this would show on the top of their profile so visitors could quickly find their photos. This would incentivize the use of hashtags (even generic ones) that is noticeable for less savvy users. So the photographer would have a reason to use #photography in their posts because now it has an obvious effect: it lets visitors see their portfolio. You may see someone that has these "My Hashtags" in their profile and think "wait, how do I add something like this to my profile?" and boom, now everyone discovers the feature and everyone uses them, and everyone is happy. Novel feature achieved. Bluesky becomes better than Twitter overnight.
anigbrowl 2y ago
I am gonna keep nagging you about trending topics, because without them the hashtag feature is sorta useless. There isn't a way to browse hashtags and so it's hard for people to see what other people are converging on.

by pfraze 2y ago

arromatic 2y ago

Is there going to be a "for you" feed like twitter that algorithmically finds post you are interested based on what you search or browse ?

Freedom2 2y ago
I thought this community was against algorithmic feeds? Shows what I know about Hacker News commenters.
- fragmede 2y ago
  Thinking HN commenters are a singular monolithic group with one shared opinion, in unison, is probably your first mistake.
- AlienRobot 2y ago
  In my opinion people don't like algorithmic feeds because they're used to feeds with bias to politics, drama, and clickbait. When the algorithm can find you more cute cat pictures, it's a godsend.

AlienRobot 2y ago

You want a novel feature? Consider this. Right now, only Tumblr and Youtube allow you to create separate profiles with a single account. If I follow this guy who posts his comics in his account, unless he's exceptionally good at social media (they aren't), he'll use the same account to blog, and 9/10 of his posts will be blog posts. I was trying to build a list of photographers and I had to repeatedly use the "Media" tab to figure out if a guy who says he's a photographer in his bio actually posts any photos on his profile or it's all just hot takes. Why can't I have a "Media" tab for "Photos I took myself"? Over a decade ago DeviantArt had folders. Most of the posts I see don't even have hashtags. I think if you let users define something like "my hashtags" where you could quickly find all their posts by a hashtag, and also let users follow only posts of a user that contains a hashtag, you would make hashtags actually relevant in a platform that lets you do full text search. To explain better: the photographer would set "#photography" in their "My Hashtags" settings, for example, and this would show on the top of their profile so visitors could quickly find their photos. This would incentivize the use of hashtags (even generic ones) that is noticeable for less savvy users. So the photographer would have a reason to use #photography in their posts because now it has an obvious effect: it lets visitors see their portfolio. You may see someone that has these "My Hashtags" in their profile and think "wait, how do I add something like this to my profile?" and boom, now everyone discovers the feature and everyone uses them, and everyone is happy. Novel feature achieved. Bluesky becomes better than Twitter overnight.

anigbrowl 2y ago

I am gonna keep nagging you about trending topics, because without them the hashtag feature is sorta useless. There isn't a way to browse hashtags and so it's hard for people to see what other people are converging on.