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user-inactivated  ·  4480 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Saved post notifications

Thanks for listening your audience always :) BTW as mentioned yesterday (not sure you've seen that) I miss the nice blue casing we used to have before...

Now regarding the notifications, I'm not sure my personal use is adapted: - I tend to "up1" (I mean clicking on the wheel - the plus sign is verboten) often if I think it's a good post, I guess that's a light version of badge-ing and as far as I remember that counts as a "shared post" - Saving an article means for me one that I reeeeeeeally and would love to find again later - Following the comments is a bit of another league for me, maybe closer to "up1" ing though not necessarily "sharing", while I could also only "share" the "saved" items I really appreciate

Am I hubskiing the wrong way around?





scarp  ·  4480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I share your sentiment. Saving a post doesn't necessarily mean I want to follow its comments, and vice versa. I think it would be better to have a separate "follow" function for posts and threads, but that could get quite cluttered. Ideally we should balance simplicity and ease of use with functionality, but I don't know precisely how.

mk  ·  4480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    BTW as mentioned yesterday (not sure you've seen that) I miss the nice blue casing we used to have before...

Did it look blue? The background was #F0F0F0, and. the feed background was #FFFFFF. I think someone said it had a snowy feel. Anyone else miss it? (Or do you mean long ago?)

    Am I hubskiing the wrong way around?

I don't think you can hubski the wrong way. Yes, clicking the wheel shares, and saving does keep it for later. As scarp mentions, it's a goal to keep simplicity while enabling what people like to do. IMO it would be confusing to create an independent function that monitors activity on a post, -that's why I merged it with saved, and allowed you to turn it on or off. Therefore, you can either just save, or save and monitor. As most saved posts are old ones, I assume that this functionality will bring few notifications unless a user saves an active post.

That's part of the reason why we were looking for a term that was better suited than 'saved'.

It's definitely a tough balance. I don't want to keep function creep at a minimum. Ideally, I'd like Hubski to work well without much effort, but for those that want to tweak it, they should be able to get some extra functionality.

user-inactivated  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I understand and agree also with what scarp said. So I don't think this function would suit my usage but I can't complain.

For some months and until a couple days, the controls on the left were clearly/nicely separated from the content by a kind of blue or grey casing. Anyway I'm not one to criticize any change, just saying I liked it better.

mk  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

update: I think you'll like 'snow'.

user-inactivated  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Magnifique !

mk  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks.

I almost named it: 'le croisillon'.

user-inactivated  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

ooooooooooo would I have blushed!

thenewgreen  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Snow is great, nice work

mk  ·  4479 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Understood.

My motivation for the style switch had more to do with changing the default to 'clean' than with removing 'normal'. Maybe I can reintroduce a version of 'normal' as 'snow' in the near future.