There is so much content here on Hubski that I can't possibly aggregate it all without multiple accounts. I can't remember what Reddit called it (it's been too long since I've had an account there), but they had like a multi-reddit thing or something where you could group subreddits together. Maybe the same thing for here?
For instance, I like cooking food, but #grubski and #food have way too many posts in them that intermingle with my news updates, entertainment updates, etc. If only I could have one grouping for entertainment, one for news, one for food, one for etc, etc, etc, I could manage all that information rather it all coming up in one feed and missing a lot of things.
This is something that we have previously discussed, and I don't think it's a bad idea. insomniasexx can you make sure we talk about this next meet? Just to be clear, you are talking about the ability to create more than one feed, correct? Do you have any ideas how you'd like to see this implemented? For example, what if the feed menu above had a drop-down menu, and you could select the feed to currently display? I assume you would name them whatever you like.
Yes the ability to create more than one feed, named how you like. So, the options I can think of are on the side of the page, which would affect mobile users so you probably don't want to do that. Expanding them as separate buttons at the top, which would affect mobile users AND people who create a ton of them, so probably not a good idea. I think your feed dropdown is a good idea. You'll probably want to make sure that the feed button, when only one feed exists, works the same way as it does right now so that other people aren't impacted by the change, but the only "bad" thing I can think of on my end with a dropdown is that I would have to click twice to get to a new feed. Not a huge deal, and also can be resolved by just bookmarking the feeds. So yeah the drop down feed menu sounds like a good idea.
I have a question. I was still sort of barely using reddit when they introduced the multireddits. Look. I even have some. But...I've never used them. Seriously. Never. I made them, I tried to use them, and then I just...didn't. Can someone tell me how they use the multireddits. Why they use them. Etc. Etc. Etc.
That feature wasn't available when I stopped using reddit, but I used bookmarks with the /r/sub1sub2...+subn for subjects with lots of subs that I wanted to dig through periodically rather than see mixed in with everything else. The 30-something music subreddits I was reading, the programming subs, ... Mostly it was a workaround for reddit not handling being subscribed to subs with vastly different sizes/traffic well.
I had different multireddits. They were each basically used for different moods. I had one called "humansbeinghuman" when I wanted to watch some slapstick, dangerous stunts, or fights. I had another called "goodbodygoodmind" which had stuff in it that I thought would help me be a better person, like a weight loss sub, a sub for decluttering and minimizing possessions, and a bunch of creative hobbies I enjoy like worldbuilding and game development. I also subscribed to a community-created multireddit called "safe for work porn" which was all the beautiful images of nature, landscapes, food, architecture, and other cool stuff. But I also tried to make sure that when I made a multireddit, I only combined subreddits with similar activity levels, so the multi filled out evenly and one sub wasn't dominating the content of the multi and burying everything else. I mentioned this problem about Hubski recently: and I think a multireddit-like solution (grouped feeds) will help alleviate that problem. On Hubski, I'd have one feed that's entirely music tags, while another would be my main feed with all the other stuff. (Though I might later subdivide further if it became necessary). With only one feed, a single big tag like #music can really make the single feed go boom.
When I was using them I kind of had a system. One for political news, which had /r/news, /r/worldnews, /r/worldevents, /r/world{etc}, /r/foreignpolicy, /r/nottheonion, etc. One for gaming, which had /r/gaming, /r/{insert consoles I'm playing on here}, /r/{insert games I am currently playing here}. One for tech news, /r/technology, /r/futurology, /r/apple, /r/windows, /r/unix, /r/openbsd, /r/freebsd, /r/linux, etc..... One for legal news, /r/law, /r/patents, /r/copyright, /r/history, /r/eff, /r/yro, /r/privacy, /r/cyberlaws, etc. One for the crazy people, /r/conspiracy, and all that crazy shit that spawns off of it (kind of fun to read every once in awhile how nuts some people are). So really, it was to group a bunch of like reddits together, but you could do other things too. Some days I just wanted to read tech news and legal news, some days I was just there for gaming. Some days I was just there to watch the crazy people go nuts and feel a bit saner. Some days I'd open up two windows and make them side by side, one with one feed, one with another. I'm noticing similar issues here. Like for instance, I want to follow music tastes across the site but I don't want that mixing in with my regular feed, I'd rather have that a separate feed, food tags, etc.