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comment by Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Tags are dead. Long live tags.

Okay. The problem I have with this is that it makes it very hard to get started with the website quickly. The approach I was taking was following a number of tags, then following the people who posted in these tags. I feel that removing the ability to follow tags runs counter to that.





mk  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Okay. The problem I have with this is that it makes it very hard to get started with the website quickly.

That's definitely something we have to keep in mind going forward. thenewgreen and I were just brainstorming some ideas about how we might improve the new user experience. It's a valid point.

possessedcow  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure if this is actually a good idea, but on signup you could give them the option to enter a few tags they're interested in and have it select X users that post in those tags to follow at startup to populate their feed.

mk  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not a bad one at all. We were thinking about asking three questions. But your way seems more to the point.

Shrewsbury  ·  4372 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The tags served as topics, steering the experience towards the things I wanted to read. You could always use tags as a way to curate a feed, introducing some bias into how topics are sorted and displayed. "Areas of interest" if you will.