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insomniasexx  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Humanizing Hubski

I've been swamped with the 9-5 (lately 9-9) job but I have a couple questions for the community. What information do you want to see about other users? Specifically. Don't think about is it possible or not. It's brainstorming.

1. Avatars. Or not avatars. This has been pretty thoroughly debated already.

2. Seeing more of your relationship with other users.

3. flagamuffin's comment below regarding 'your past conversations with x'. veen said this as well - "see previous dialogues with others"

4. _refugee_'s insight into snapchats functionality of who you snap with most.

5. veen's note about seeing joined x days earlier, they comment more or share less often than you, etc

What else would you like to see if we were to dramatically increase the amount of information you could glean from profile pages? I kinda want to get it all out there and debate the opt-in, privacy, etc side of it later. I can assure you that mk and the team here is thoroughly committed to opt-in functionalities and giving users control over their information. We are making big strides to make Hubski more private and controlled by the user. We never want people to be scared of what information may be out there or automatically generated about them.

One thing I would really love to see is a visualization of my connection to a person. We have really nifty graphs for frequency of posts/comments over time. I would love similar graphs to somehow capture my relationship with another user. Maybe how many time's I've shouted them out/replied to them/they replied to me over time. Maybe some way to compare shared interests in tags. Maybe some way to compare the number of threads we both commented on. Chances are, even if I haven't engaged directly with them, I would like to get to know them better if we comment on 90% of the same threads.

And I've got a meeting. Throw thoughts at me.





veen  ·  3667 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, did you or mk or forwardslash implement the new 'my interactions' part on someone's bio? Quite like it so far. How far does the line graph go back?

mk  ·  3667 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks. That was me. It's a work in progress. I wanted to get a feel for it. Currently it graphs the last month.

insomniasexx  ·  3667 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Damn! That was fast! I like it. That was in my "shit for the future list" not "shit for tonight"!

ButterflyEffect  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What if I could click on a users name and see how many followed tags and domains we have in common?

user-inactivated  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't use snapchat, so I didn't know about #4 -- how could we adapt that idea to hubski? Person you've replied to most, person who has replied to you the most? It would need to be pretty detailed to have impact I think, but it would be seriously awesome to be able to pull up a list of people you've previously in-depth discussed the minimum wage with when you're submitting something about that subject.

    Maybe some way to compare the number of threads we both commented on. Chances are, even if I haven't engaged directly with them, I would like to get to know them better if we comment on 90% of the same threads.

Perfect, love this, I'm naming it the hubski correlation coefficient and now that it has a name we need it to exist.

humanodon  ·  3668 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd like to see more stuff on interactions I've had with previous users, both visually and in a list or something. I have trouble remembering if I recommended something to someone already in a previous conversation.

I don't really care about the avatar thing, even though I have one in my bio page, but sometimes when I'm tired, it's hard to see the usernames clearly. I get usernames confused all the time. Is it possible for user names to use different typefaces or is that a pain in the ass? I guess it might not make things any easier, since our usernames are so small.

insomniasexx  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you go to my profile and then to the graphs and then click on "replies" you can access this page: http://hubski.com/comments?id=humanodon&filter=kinsomniasexx

Woooo-hoooo!

humanodon  ·  3664 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Aw rad, nice work!