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.
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.This, and no collapsing comments, are taking Hubski from a "yay" to a "meh" for me.
You will probably dig today's update, WorLord. To be perfectly honest, it was a degree of freedom that I began to miss too.