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Fixing our social sharing tools

15 points by tensafefrogs 14y ago

jerrystearns 14y ago
very good
Pingit 14y ago
This is exactly what Ping.it fixes. Read this for a quick intro: http://ping.it/press http://ping.it/press
pthor 14y ago
There really should be a better way to subscribe to people. I don't want to miss out on major life events of old friends, but don't want to hear about their political views all the times.
sreenivas 14y ago
Facebook news feed is a pain nowadays with all the useless stuff my friends are sharing..
webwanderings 14y ago
You provide two examples of a promising change: Pinterest and Medium (I don't use either of them) but their solution appears to be as same as what Reddit provides, i.e, the sub-categories. So what is the difference? Also, why ask for Facebook connect for Personify?
- tensafefrogs 14y ago
  The difference is that reddit crams everyone into a category, where Pinterest uses a follow model to curate your stream. Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. There's still the problem of hundreds of people trying to have a discussion in one place, though. Facebook connect is for simplicity during signup, and so you can post shared things to your Facebook timeline.
  - webwanderings 14y ago
    >>Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. << That's exactly how I use Reddit, and I was under the impression that pretty much all of the typical Reddit crowd does the same, no? Reddit wasn't attractive to me unless I spent some time upfront to subscribe to bunch of sub-reddits and now I see only the categories I want to see (other than the top entry which is sort of what Reddit pushes as an Ad-posting). Discussion at Reddit is indeed a problem, particularly for popular sub-reddit. I believe Branch is working on resolving some of the discussion issues apparent across the web. Facebook connect for a new social service is counter intuitive. I will never sign up for a new service via FB or anything else.

15 points by tensafefrogs 14y ago

jerrystearns 14y ago

very good

Pingit 14y ago

This is exactly what Ping.it fixes. Read this for a quick intro: http://ping.it/press http://ping.it/press

pthor 14y ago

There really should be a better way to subscribe to people. I don't want to miss out on major life events of old friends, but don't want to hear about their political views all the times.

sreenivas 14y ago

Facebook news feed is a pain nowadays with all the useless stuff my friends are sharing..

webwanderings 14y ago

You provide two examples of a promising change: Pinterest and Medium (I don't use either of them) but their solution appears to be as same as what Reddit provides, i.e, the sub-categories. So what is the difference? Also, why ask for Facebook connect for Personify?

tensafefrogs 14y ago
The difference is that reddit crams everyone into a category, where Pinterest uses a follow model to curate your stream. Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. There's still the problem of hundreds of people trying to have a discussion in one place, though. Facebook connect is for simplicity during signup, and so you can post shared things to your Facebook timeline.
- webwanderings 14y ago
  >>Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. << That's exactly how I use Reddit, and I was under the impression that pretty much all of the typical Reddit crowd does the same, no? Reddit wasn't attractive to me unless I spent some time upfront to subscribe to bunch of sub-reddits and now I see only the categories I want to see (other than the top entry which is sort of what Reddit pushes as an Ad-posting). Discussion at Reddit is indeed a problem, particularly for popular sub-reddit. I believe Branch is working on resolving some of the discussion issues apparent across the web. Facebook connect for a new social service is counter intuitive. I will never sign up for a new service via FB or anything else.