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kleinbl00  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Obligatory Influx Opinions Post

I think the next thing Team Hubski should work on is a "new" mode. It sucks being hugged to death by reddit, but it's happened three times in my memory and we gripe and grumble because our experience gets borked.

Considering the new users are going to come from Reddit, we ought to give new accounts one followed tag (#newhere) and tag a bunch of faq-like posts with it.

We ought to make the tutorial hella easier to find.

We ought to make it just as easy - if not easier - for new members to find popular TAGS and suggest they get followed as we do popular USERS.

AND we ought to point out that a post on Hubski is good for DAYS, instead of being unmanageable after an hour.





b_b  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've argued with the fellas about this kind of thing a bit. I've always thought a new user should be defaulted to the tutorial but not suggested anything immediately. If they care enough to contribute, they'll figure it out, is my thinking. I'm in the minority (apparently with a voting bloc of one). But I don't hate the idea of "new mode". Will discuss further, for sure.

Personally, I like a lot of the new contriubutors, and I hope many will stick around, but I don't really like talking about Hubski that much (although I see it a necessary sometimes). Already the huge traffic spike from the last two days is dying down.

kleinbl00  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Then you have become my congressperson, whom I now petition. Default them to the tutorial, suggest nothing, let them figure it out.

Put it this way - if you give them your opinion, they're learning from you. If you let them poke around, you're learning from them.

b_b  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Barriers to entry are both a problem and a solution. There's a reason joining Oakland Hills country club (the big PGA caliber place 'round here) has a several hundred thousand dollar buy-in and a five year waiting list (with sponsorship).

user-inactivated  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was kicking something similar to what kleinbl00 suggested above around in my head last night -- how about an account called announcements or (I would say hubski but that's taken) something that's mandatory for everyone to follow?

Similar to reddit's mandatory subreddit, I guess, although their announcements are never relevant to me at all so let's do better there.

thenewgreen  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think we should name it Tom, you know a little nod to myspace. Really that's what mk uses the Hubski account for. When he makes an update from it it goes in to everyones feed.

user-inactivated  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    When he makes an update from it it goes in to everyones feed.

Another thing I didn't know.

kleinbl00  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Bearing in mind that "announcements" isn't mandatory on Reddit, it's something you have to unsubscribe from. That said, I think that would work nicely.

user-inactivated  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh! Assumed you couldn't unsubscribe or something. Haha. But yeah, I don't always see all of mk's announcements/site notes, even though I follow 50 of the most active hubskiers. Newer users are adrift in the storm.

thenewgreen  ·  3828 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My former boss is a member and took me to dinner there once. It was alright. The golf course is amazing though.