Two days ago, veen made a provocative post called Humanizing Hubski. He presented some interesting ideas, and asked some good questions.
One idea that I found particularly compelling was that previous user interactions could be better presented. As a result, I started to experiment with information that might help us better understand our relationships with each other.
As many of you have already noticed, when you visit the profile of another user, you will now see a section titled "my interactions". These are my interactions when viewing insomniasexx's profile:
According to Hubski: I have shared 40 of insom's posts, I have voted up 194 of insom's comments, and I have replied to 116 of insom's comments or posts.
The sparkline graphs represent the last 30 days of my activity. The numbers link to pages displaying the respective activity.
This is still a work in progress, as are the pages that are linked to.
Your feedback is much appreciated. Personally, I already find this information interesting, but I am sure that improvements could be made.
In addition, kleinbl00 and doesntgolf rightfully called out the "interested in" tag list as not very useful. As suggested, it has been swapped out for "tags used", a list of tags the user has recently used.
And here is what I see when I visit mk's profile: I'm just happy his name is now teal. I have perma-saved the email notification as a reminder of my accomplishments. It's possible, thenewgreen. Keep your hopes up. :P
Nah flag, I used it too. It might be one of my favorite features because it's interesting data. Sometimes it helps me make decisions as to if I want to follow someone or not. It would be nice to have that chart back.
I believe mk will best the best person to look into this and bring it back. forwardslash may be able to, too? Regardless, I've added it to the shortlist of post-vacation items. If it was removed on purpose, we will bring it back. If it was removed due to influx, we will bring it back. cc: humanodon ButterflyEffect _refugee_ bcc: thenewgreen
Yes, flagamuffin, ButterflyEffect, _refugee_ we all use it and like it. Not intentional. Will be back. Be patient as mk takes his one digital respit of the year. But yeah, I like that feature too.
I don't remember making a decision on this. It may have been dropped when we were having enormous server issues? Not sure?
So b_b and I had a discussion about "interested in" -- please tell me why that can't be a space we're allowed to fill in ourselves? I've brought this up several times. Right now, mine doesn't even contain tags I've used recently, it contains (I think?) the last five tags I shared. Or something. That's not a particularly good reflection of my hubski use. Let us choose our favorite five tags or five tags we'd like to promote to new users, or even just tags we think better show our site use. -- The rest of this is awesome, I love my interactions history.
That's a possibility. Right now it pulls the most 5 common tags from the last 50 posts that you submitted. However, I suspect many users would leave it blank if it were suggestion only. But I do think the idea of suggested tags is interesting. Thanks. I plan to make those pages sortable by shares, etc, just like the other feeds.The rest of this is awesome, I love my interactions history.
"submitted" --I'm assuming you mean shared, because I don't submit #weeklymusicthread anymore. I have #comedy and #askhubski on mine also, which aren't tags I've used much if at all. Submitted is a better metric than shared; but letting us do it ourselves (maybe as a choice?) is best in my opinion. Just as long as the idea is on your radar.
I think you should maybe look at how you're pulling the "used tags" fields - it looks like you're also pulling tags that others have applied to your posts. I have no recollection of ever tagging something "#language" yet there it is... Otherwise, awesome. I dig it.
I think this is worth discussing. I won't make promises from a coding perspective but I assume it could be implemented with adding a couple more text input fields. In the meantime, you could just do it in your profile section like this: #thehumancondition #goodlongreads #technology & #privacy #bitcoin #singularity and pretty much anything that provides deeper insight into the larger world. like I do.On Hubski, I am especially interested:
Use your bio to promote tags or even users you would suggest people follow. You have all the ability in the world to be creative in that space. Right ? See my bio for an example.
Damn mk (et al.) , this is really fuckin' cool. Not just that you guys implement ideas within a day after the discussion. You also made it look really cool (I have a soft spot for graphs). I really don't know any site with such a dedicated team behind it and thanks to their efforts, Hubski is what it is now. It needs to be said. The least I could do is badge this. Keep up the good work!