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CraigEllsworth  ·  3196 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is there a way to say "Only give me like five posts from this tag in my feed"?

Thanks, but I guess I don't see the advantage of using that RSS page and bookmark it when I could just go to the #music tag page and bookmark that instead. What's the difference between the two? They look the same, except the RSS doesn't have the Hubski features like Hide, so I can't hide the posts I've seen (which is primarily how I put new content in my feed).





tla  ·  3196 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I wasn't aware of your hide requirement before now, and I'm not sure if any readers have it. The firefox reader probably doesn't. Other rss readers will have different features and I know some have variations of hiding mechanisms. Depends how much investigating you want to do.

I'm sure at some point the site admins will appear (Paging thenewgreen insomniasexx) and weigh in on whether hubski will have this kind of functionality in the near future.

I don't use hide, or know how it works per se. Though looking now at #music which I don't follow, I do see a hide option which suggests you can hide stuff in tags you're not following.

CraigEllsworth  ·  3196 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hiding is a bit of a carry-over habit from Reddit. Basically if I've seen a post, I typically hide it to clear away the feed so I don't get stuck looking at the same thing for a long time until more content rises. That way I can see older stuff, which, on Hubski much more than Reddit, is particularly useful, since we're encouraged to continue older discussions.

But in any case, I've just decided that I've subscribed to a few music-related tags ( #metal, #punk, #musicforpabs, #hubskioriginalmusicclub), and I'll just occasionally check the #music tag separately and see what's new (and especially to see if there's any secondary I might be interested in following). I think that's work well enough for now.

thenewgreen  ·  3195 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We used to have personal tags:

Which would have helped you solve this problem. You could have ignored #music.thenewgreen if you thought my taste in music sucked. Or you could have followed it if you liked my taste. This was a way to get more granular in your use of the site. But, we essentially did away with them:

CraigEllsworth  ·  3195 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, they still exist, and originally I was posting music myself under #music.CraigEllsworth, but I just removed the tag on the posts I had them on because the way the tag is written almost suggests it's my own self-created music rather than music from known artists I just happen to like. Think it's worth it to continue to use the personal tag to help others out, or is Hubski trying to phase out personal tags altogether?

thenewgreen  ·  3195 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, we aren't trying to phase them out. I lied them. I like them.

CraigEllsworth  ·  3195 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Time to put all my personal music tags back on my posts!