This is a crosspost from the hubski reddit, and I am also a redditor coming over to hubski, but these are a few general suggests that I think might make the site a bit more user friendly.
subscribing to a tag should be as easy as subscribing to a subreddit
It's annoying to have to confirm that I want to follow a tag when I click it. It's not a big problem, but it's a main problem that I have had with other services similar to Hubski in the past. They take simple things and make them just slightly more complicated then they need to be.
also: when you open a tag in a new tab you should be able to see a page for that tag I.E. That little dialog that pops up when you click on a tag to subscribe should be what shows up in a new tab if you were to right click and open it in a new tab.
tagging
When you are to tag a post when you submit it, it should automatically catch onto the tags. Sort of like in tumblr or omegle when you ad an intrest and place a comma it's demarcated as being different. It's just a little user feedback thing that might make the sight a little better
downvotes
I like the idea of a downvote, but a better way to show it might be to make the downvote also hide the comment. it would be more like instead of a downvote, it's a hide button. One of the best things about reddit is giving those with nothing to say a democratic voice.
Again, I think this place is pretty neat, but I also want to make it better.
Thanks OmnomoBoreos. This one stuck out to me. I think you are right about it. Some of the differences between Reddit and Hubski are underpinned by differences in the goals of the two sites. For example, initially following a large number of tags might be tedious, but after that point tags play a bigger role in content discovery, so the primary function as a menu starts to feel more intuitive. I ask that you use the site for a while and then get back to me. That said, feedback really does help. I hope you follow up after using the site for a couple of weeks.when you open a tag in a new tab you should be able to see a page for that tag I.E. That little dialog that pops up when you click on a tag to subscribe should be what shows up in a new tab if you were to right click and open it in a new tab.
If any up/down voting system is ever implemented there should be no way of tracking number of "upvotes and downvotes" if it's downvoted out, no one cares by how much. And going after upvotes is a big reason why reddit is becoming a very base place. Knowing the number encourages people to go for a "high score" instead of being themselves. I like the "voting" system in place currently. Due to the small size of this website I feel like subreddit style communities built around tags are possible but far off in the future. And right now I'm not really such if I should follow a ton of tags I might have a general interest in or just a few I'm very interested in. AskHubski is currently dominating my "feed" but I'm not sure how or if I can to balance it out. EDIT: Also if i'm interested in movies I'm not sure if I should follow some/all/any of "movie" "movies" "film" "cinema" etc
a way to remedy that would for the site to give terms on the side. Sort of like a "most commonly used tags" that way you wouldn't get the shattered effects that comes with using tags like that.
Thanks for the suggestions, it's nice to get feedback. mk I like the idea of just clicking on a tag to follow it without confirming yes or no.
To guard against accidental subscriptions, there should be some sort of non-obtrusive confirmation that appears when you click on the tag (something like Reddit's report function).
I think that would be what you would go to if you were to right click a tag to open it in a new page. That little dialog that pops up would be in there. Also: you would just click it again if you subscribed on accident. One click to subscribe which would make the tag/user's name blue and then click it again to unsubscribe making it gray.