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WorLord  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Apathy

For my own part... I guess I've been here a month or so, and am also not quite as excited about it as I once was.

I think Hubski's greatest feature is what's holding it back: subscribing to people instead of topics isn't working out as expected (for me).

More often than not, the pattern appears to be this:

- I'm on a thread about something I find interesting, and PersonX posts something that just blows me away

- So I subscribe to PersonX

- As it turns out, PersonX spends most of his/her time posting about things that bore me to tears, and the one post I followed him/her for was a rarity

I grant there are some times where PersonX might post something great about something I'm not usually interested in, but you know... even a great work can be boring if its about something you don't care about.

Never mind any of the other problems. This, and no collapsing comments, are taking Hubski from a "yay" to a "meh" for me.





syncretic  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    This, and no collapsing comments, are taking Hubski from a "yay" to a "meh" for me.

You'll probably be very interested in this:

http://hubski.com/pub?id=60953

As for following users instead of tags, it just takes some trial and error, but I kind of like it now. I find that I am heavily ignoring a lot of tags instead of following, so instead of subscribing to a narrow amount of specific subjects and adding things as I discover them, I am exposed to absolutely everything, and I am slowly cutting away the fat. Sure, I have to ignore new tags a lot, sometimes several times a day, but every time I do my feed gets a little better for the future.

WorLord  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I can use this without GreaseMonkey? Well that takes care of that. How refreshing.

syncretic  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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mk  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You will probably dig today's update, WorLord. To be perfectly honest, it was a degree of freedom that I began to miss too.

WorLord  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right, I DO dig it. What a great place, I make two complaints and (from my perspective) they're both fixed in less than a couple hours. LOL