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Suggestion: Activity Levels

by Standard_Nerd · #suggestion
posted 385 days ago · shared by: 11
I was just looking through the discovery panel for new people to follow, but found one piece of information lacking. It would be useful to know how active (e.g. how often they post) a user is when deciding who to follow. Since the submissions aren't dated, looking through people's profiles gave me no information on how often that person posts, which isn't a necessary criteria, but would be nice to know, especially since some users stop activity all together and so following them would be pointless. When hubski becomes more active balancing activity levels between hubs I follow might become more important, since I wouldn't want to see my feed dominated by one extremely active user drowning out the others. Putting dates on hub posts seems like the easiest way to address this, but adding some kind of activity level metric to a users summary might also help.


by mk 385 days ago  ·  link
Funny you should mention that. I am working on an update atm, and one thing that I added to it today was 'user stats' such as average posts per day. It might also be useful to add the date of their last post.

The update will roll out in the next few days.

There are quite a few things in the pipeline, actually, including polls and a more useful/interesting saving mechanism. It looks like I am also going to be getting a basic API together.

by insomniasexx 384 days ago  ·  link
Thanks for all your hard work mk. We do appreciate it, even if we keep asking for more more more.
by mk 384 days ago  ·  link
Thanks. And np, I want improvements as much as you all.
by JakobVirgil 385 days ago  ·  link
a visual method of showing how active a user is along the lines of the hubski circles would be cool.
by thenewgreen 384 days ago  ·  link
It wouldn't be a measure of popularity but rather of engagement, I like this idea.
by JakobVirgil 384 days ago  ·  link
something that builds up with use and erodes with time.
by sounds_sound 385 days ago  ·  link
I know mk was considering adding this kind of information under the 'about user' section when you visit someone's hub. i think it 's a good idea.
by mk 385 days ago  ·  link
Actually the hub page is being broken to bits, and the site simplified some. But yes, there will be an 'about user' page, where that information will be available.
by mk 383 days ago  ·  link
Ok, check it out.

It's a start. let me know if you have any suggestions.

by Standard_Nerd 383 days ago  ·  link
Exactly what it needed! I do have one (nitpicky) suggestion, average comment score isn't really intuitive as a number, it isn't obvious what it means. I assume its the average of integers corresponding to the "ticks" you get from other people, but since you never represent this as a number maybe it would be more fitting to use a different display mechanism?
by mk 383 days ago  ·  link
Hm. That's not a bad idea. It could be a hubwheel, but unless I altered the range, most would be pretty low. Btw, the average currently only starts after the are 10 comments.

I'll think on this.



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