I actually have come over from reddit specifically because of that thread. I was actually happy about how barebones Hubski "feels" (or, to me, just looks). The parts of reddit I love are the smaller subreddits that I was, unfortunately, just beginning to get really active in. Hubski feels like that, but all over. I've only been here for a day, and other than the text being too small for me to read half the time, I'm actually loving it. It feels more conversation based, and that's cool to me. I'm hoping that the groups I was getting active in - writing prompts, writing, gay, etc - spring up a little here too, but in hubski's way. I was (am still) a moderator over at Unsolicited Redesigns, and I think the way hubski works would really lend itself to something like that.
I've been saying this for a while now: I cannot wait for Hubski to have a ton of little circles of users that post things that I have no interest in and these little sections become their own micro communities naturally. I can't wait to see how Hubski's ignore/follow foundation affects what these sections become. It's happening somewhat with gaming - there are a bunch of users that post about gaming and long threads that I don't read and only occasionally see. It's fantastic. It's exciting. We have a lot of writers, we have a lot of musicians, we now have a fair number of gamers. As we grow there are going to be more and more groups of people like this which is only going to help us grow more. I feel like one of the reasons we have so many writers is because it was one of the first topics that had a relatively large number of posts and comments about and other writers stuck around when they discovered Hubski because of that. The best way to get these topics started is to just start posting things to that tag. People will come out of the woodwork who share your interests and new users will stick around specifically because of that topic. spring up a little here too, but in hubski's way.
I think hubski really needs more community creation sorts of tools. Not mods, perhaps, but the ability to have some sort of "sidebar" that runs by wiki rules? Posts which can be voted to become a sticky? I don't know, maybe i'm wrong and communities will work fine, but it feels to me like the tags have too little feel of community to them.
Stick around for 30 days and then I'll discuss this with you. Not to be mean - truly - but you are fresh from reddit. You want what you want because you are used to reddit. We are not reddit. A lot of hard work, thought, and sweat has been poured into developing this site and, surprising as it may be, the decisions behind how this site is set up has been very carefully thought out. 30 days. Shout me out and we can have a discussion. I look forward to it.member for: 1 day