Hello -- I have a suggestion for the display of friends' blogs.
I think it would make sense if the "most-recently commented" blog stayed on top, instead of the "most-recently posted." It would work like tribe threads, and would facilitate more dialog in blogs.
We don't want to go searching down the list for blogs we might want to watch. And if it disappears off the page, forget it. It might as well not exist anymore.
What do you all think?
I think it would make sense if the "most-recently commented" blog stayed on top, instead of the "most-recently posted." It would work like tribe threads, and would facilitate more dialog in blogs.
We don't want to go searching down the list for blogs we might want to watch. And if it disappears off the page, forget it. It might as well not exist anymore.
What do you all think?
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Poland
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:38 AMThat's a great idea!
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:52 AMmaybe if it were an option, like on a thread where you can switch back and forth between 'threaded' 'unthreaded' 'newest first', something like that at the top of the blogs list so you can switch when you want to. -
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 2:04 PMSure, it could be an option. Although it's really not that much different from the status quo, as new blogs would still appear at the top of the stack as they do now. Except that if no one comments on them, they will fall down the stack faster. This seems like a desirable default behavior. -
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 2:09 PMWell, it depends upon how you're reading the blogs. If I want to keep up with someone's blogs, I may well just want to see the newest entries rather than have to sort through a bunch of recently-commented entries that I've already seen. Doing it only by recent comments makes it really hard for a casual reader to figure out when he's seen all the new entries. -
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 3:11 PMI think this will naturally sort itself out. After all, the most recent entries tend to be the most recently commented entries too. That is, at least, if the entries are interesting! But if they aren't interesting, why would you want to read them? :-)
I am teasing a little bit here, of course. Come on, change is good! Accept it!!! -
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Tue, March 18, 2008 - 1:11 AMNot a bad idea.. but I can foresee some people who use their blogs as points of communication staying at the top for ages after they have posted - and missing other folks blogs because of it.. Some users might even comment in their own blog just to keep it on top.. that would be annoying - but I guess there is always the "unfriend" button.. but that would be a pity to use it because of blogs attracting comments.
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Tue, March 18, 2008 - 1:25 AMNo, let me explain -- any new blog that gets posted would appear at the top initially. It would work exactly like topics in a tribe.
You don't "miss" a certain topic in a tribe just because another topic happens to get more responses, do you?
Any blog with "new" activity (i.e. either a new blog or a newly-commented blog) could be highlighted somehow (like the orange star next to threads with new activity in a tribe).
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 5:09 PMI'd like the ability to only subscribe to certain blogs
brainstorm.tribe.net/thread/...9d7ab953
Maybe when tribe doesn't have to violate labor laws to stay up and running? There are folks I liked being friends with but they blogged every day, four times a day. I don't know how anything worth blogging about could happen when they were so preoccupied blogging.
...still waiting on a reply re: the T-shirt I ordered as a Christmas present.
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Re: A better blog refresh method
Tue, March 18, 2008 - 6:08 PMI have noticed that blogs and photos are basically the same:
• A photo and some user comments.
I like your idea, and I did have a tribe as my blog once, but friends don't see them on their home page, only if they went to my tribe.
Maybe that's right anyway?
A blog should be sign-up-able?
Also comments in blogs would be good to be thread-able too.
Heck... why not make blogs, photos, and tribes, all just tribes, and THEN allow a tribe thread to have an optional photo?
That way they ARE the same.
Easier to support too!
