Coming from Reddit here. Tried it once before, decided to try it again. I have... issues with Hubski. For instance: * The whole follow/ignore system doesn't work for me, for various reasons. For one thing, I don't know who/what to follow, and if I did, I'd just slap a feed in my RSS reader and be done with it. It's too... binary. There's no way to say "hey, this is something that I don't generally like, but you know, if there's a really highly voted post on the subject run it by me anyways". * Don't like the interface much. Fixed top bar, popovers all over the place, inconsistent text sizes, unclickable gaps in places, too little contrast in dark mode, etc. * Public lists of who follows what is... frustrating. * Formatting seems incomplete. Case in point: no way that I can see to make lists, which is something I often do.
I agree with most of what you've said outside of the style issues (they don't bother me). I can appreciate reddit because I don't always want to curate my own experience. It's sort of the reason why my music player always plays on random. I don't know what I'm going to find over the next hill, that's kind of the point of social aggregation sites. I've actually been putting a lot of thought into what I want from such a site recently, some of the issues I'm having with hubski have really brought it to the forefront in my head. edit: Also, I really really dislike markup as the formatting 'language' for a site. I just don't think it works well, I much prefer using html tags along with maybe some simple markup like asterisks. My biggest complain is the way it treats whitespace.
You can make lists by the format hubski.com/list?id= and then copy/pasting the pub id of the posts or comments you want to include, separated by a comma. For example, here is a recent newsletter list.
That's not the type of list I meant... I meant a list inside a comment. Like what I tried to emulate in my previous comment with apostrophes.