THE INVITE I've weathered a few Eternal-September moments. It's pretty awful for a little while, then it's over and they end up leaving in their wake the likes of flagamuffin or _refugee_. Aside from that occasional occurrence, is there another problem we are trying to fix?
Here's what might be interesting anyway: I'd like to see up top on the menu, the word "invite": If I click it from a particular page, it would open up an invitation that I could put the recipient's email on. The invitation would have a link to the page I just left and might say: Look at this discussion I just contributed to on hubski. or Look at this link I just found on hubski... or Look at this friend I just made on hubski... Then a few words describing hubski and an invitation to look around or watch the tutorial and then it could say: Check it out and help push back the dark. While I've been unable to get friends to participate, I frequently send people links to discussions, poems, pages. An invite page would make that easier, plus encourage people to join. Thoughts anyone?
Very positive on this suggestion regardless of the conclusion on the rest of the thread. (I am hoping these get taken as separate issues and tackled separately.) I have tried inviting many, many friends (but only those who I thought would truly contribute) to Hubski and I have also accidentally told people about Hubski because a thread was relevant to their interests, even though I didn't think they should join or that they would make good members. The second part of that I'll just have to suck it up on, for so long as I keep blabbing about Hubski in facespace, but I feel like this suggestion would help recruit more of the first by showing examples of what Hubski is all about. Then again, people might just delete it as spam, but, can't hurt right? Edit: Also, how many other users besides lil and me have had trouble actually getting friends to join? Just curious.
It's not for everybody. People seem to just see a wall of text and have a hard time seeing all the fantastic people, discussions, art etc that is behind it. It takes time and not everyone is patient enough or frankly, has the time to invest in something new.Edit: Also, how many other users besides lil and me have had trouble actually getting friends to join? Just curious.
I do.
I love these suggestions lil, thank you! mk, insomniasexx, forwardslash, -It would be nice to discuss this on our next call.
I'd like someone's first view of hubski to be from a discussion page. It took me a while to discover that there was a discussion on a page separate from the article and separate from the link to the article... so I'd prefer to invite someone to see an ongoing discussion first and mention that if they clicked the hubwheel in the top left, they could see what other discussions are going on.