vasudeva
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1/21/2007 at 16:58 |
I've been hellish busy at work lately, which has had the unforeseen effect of discouraging me from working on work projects at home, meaning I have of late been without a compelling at-home adventure project. This coincides with a critical-mass peak in self-loathing at the realization that it's been way too long since I started talking about LS 2.0, so I've been trying to pick that back up and start figuring out where I want to go with it.
Pre-2.0, which is going to be a fukload of work and will certainly take me a while, I'd like to bring alpha queue reject reasons back for everybody, only done right this time. I already have this mostly completed apart from niceties -- such as testing -- and in a perfect world would be rolling it out today or tomorrow.
What would you like to see in the future?
We already have a thread around with feature requests that had a lot of good ideas and generated lots of "2.0" promises from myself (which I can't find immediately... anybody?) but let's have another.
In particular, I've been thinking about a couple things that may be good ideas but may not be a good fit for our crowd. That's where you come in.
1) MySpace-style homepages. I know, I know. It chills my fuking guts. MySpace is a wasteland of navel-gazing idiocy. Having said that -- having felt it vibrate like a spear in my vitals -- it's something that a lot of people would probably love, and it's probably possible to have it without letting it get intensely gay. You'd be able to make your user account page look the way you want, and the clipswarm would evolve into a larger mini-linkswarm of your own, with pictures and links to your favorite sites and shit on it. Maybe even user comments. Tell me how you feel about that.
2) Right now, the front page is a reverse chronological list of all links. In this brave new web too oh world, some of the better sites list by popularity instead; that is, you see the most popular stuff on that site in descending order. Flurl has a good representation of what I'm talking about. Del.icio.us's popular page is another, and there are plenty more examples I could link to. This would be the default view. You'd still have controls on the page to sort by reverse chronology if you wanted the old style, of course, but everyone with an account would be able to vote on links and drive them to the top of the default view. I've just started thinking about this and haven't worked through all the ramifications, but it would basically mean anyone checking out LS would see the best stuff we've put up over the last hour/day/whatever.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Pictures of fat women?
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middle_age_man
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1/21/2007 at 17:11 |
Something like “Stumble” that would randomly display links from clipswarms. There’s a lot of gold to be found there. I like the idea of personalized account pages it would be interesting to see what people do with them.
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jwalker
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1/21/2007 at 17:28 |
A swarmified MySpace? hmm...provacative.
Other suggestions:
Text-searching for forums and journals.
After posting to forum or journal, return to that post.
I guess those we move like "enhancements" than they are "features". . . will mull it over some more.
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SexNinja
the illest nigga  SSHOLEPosts: 1517 Registered: 10/28/2007 Online
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1/21/2007 at 17:30 |
but everyone with an account would be able to vote on links and drive them to the top of the default view.
Yeah, but people are idiots.
Can you write a script that forces the "most-viewed" links to move up the page? That would prevent people from ganging up on links.
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fastlane
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1/21/2007 at 17:31 |
Glad to help this thread.
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ghostrider
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1/21/2007 at 17:43 |
Yes on fat girls and homepage's.
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LOki
Refusenik  SSHOLEPosts: 483 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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1/21/2007 at 17:52 |
NUMBAH WON!
The abiity to preview comments before posting them.
NUMBAH DEUX
The link in Forum Shite goes to that last post, rather than the first
NUMBAH FWEEE
cil whitey
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nocal
It's insane, this guy's taint  SSHOLEPosts: 811 Registered: 8/25/2004 Offline
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1/21/2007 at 18:01 |
Can we get a libertarian filter? |
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JohnLenin
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1/21/2007 at 18:02 |
it would be interesting to have that link popularity concect affect a person's rad factor. High popularity = bonus rads.
and I still think a chess/poker room would be grand.
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Wrecker
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1/21/2007 at 18:30 |
I second LOki's request for the ability to preview comments prior to posting.
I would also like to see the LS login moved up to the top. It seems to be creeping further down the page.
A spin-off of guitar_jon's idea of link popularity affecting the rad factor would be to have a link's popularity affect a swarmer's bitterness rating. Currently, there is no way to 'heal' a poor bitterness rating even after a swarmer has learned what is and what is not swarm worthy.
Maybe have an age based scale where after a year, a rejected link rolls off the books and the bitterness rating is improved.
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Lefen
I think Clavis wins my heart <3  SSHOLEPosts: 896 Registered: 9/16/2003 Offline
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1/21/2007 at 21:27 |
+1 vote for myspace style profile pages. Specifically the ability to add your own links and have comments. Perhaps instead of having links submitted to the front page, you combine this with your other idea and make the front page of LS show the most popular (clicked) links from people's profile pages?
Also, I'd like to have the ability to clipswarm journal posts/link comments/forum posts.
Edit: also, if you're going to enhance the profile pages, how about giving subdomains to alpha members? so lefen.linkswarm.com would bring up my SwarmSpace page.
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vasudeva
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1/22/2007 at 15:32 |
Comment previews, text search... all this stuff is obligatory. That is, it's considered standard in any non-shithat engine. Small stuff. Think big, faggots.
lefen: how about giving subdomains to alpha members? so lefen.linkswarm.com would bring up my SwarmSpace page
Now that's a nifty idea. Would it make this idea redundant if your user page were available at http://www.linkswarm.com/lefen?
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acheron
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1/22/2007 at 16:50 |
1) I feel like some customizing is cool for the user profiles, but I'd vote against myspace-style setup. That said, you could make the option available and I wouldn't use it and I'd probably be about as happy.
2) Sure.
Also agree with comment previews/moving the login to a viewable location-I think its usually buried under our pron advertising.
I'm somewhat frustrated with the rejected links. Most of them have zero worth and I'd like to not see them at all. Possible to have a separate "reject swarm"? I'm aware I can just logout-I'm lazy. Cannot think bigger than this at the moment-get back to you.
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LORDKAHUNA
Don't make me fuk your moustache  SSHOLEPosts: 1610 Registered: 8/5/2003 Offline
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1/22/2007 at 16:59 |
I wish there was a better IRC interface tied to the main page, there is a ton of funny shit that happens there that most of you faggots are missing.
Something like this.
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jwalker
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1/22/2007 at 19:19 |
AJAX, baby!
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Lefen
I think Clavis wins my heart <3 SSHOLEPosts: 896 Registered: 9/16/2003 Offline
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1/22/2007 at 19:25 |
vasudeva:
lefen: how about giving subdomains to alpha members? so lefen.linkswarm.com would bring up my SwarmSpace page
Now that's a nifty idea. Would it make this idea redundant if your user page were available at http://www.linkswarm.com/lefen?
Yeah, either way is good. It occurred to me that if you gave people the ability to make their own mini profile-swarm then people might start promoting the direct url (ls.com/username) around the internet a bit (like in personal info on other sites), so it'd help drive traffic to linkswarm and give a sense of ownership.
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dragonstaff
Too old to Rock and Roll...too young to die  SSHOLEPosts: 741 Registered: 8/19/2004 Offline
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1/22/2007 at 19:59 |
1. I like the idea of a 'reject swarm' with rejected links on a different page.
2. LK's IRC interface would be great. If automatic log-in was part of it, then I think that the IRC would get a lot more use, by a lot more swarmers.
3. Changing the link order to reflect the most-clicked links would only perpetuate their popularity, and push the rest even further down the page. Not such a good idea.
4. For those of us with young families and stealth-kids, maybe a 'porn-swarm' page would be possible. This would remove the problem of accidentally clicking a dodgey link at the wrong time. ( It might also see more good porn links).
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HellKat
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1/22/2007 at 21:09 |
werdz lefen.
I would choose not to participate in the personal pages. Get active in the swarm and get to know people or get a myspace, yahoo other personal webpage. Maybe a link to personal webpages for those who choose to have one?
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middle_age_man
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1/23/2007 at 03:40 |
I’d like to see an opinion/editorial category. Perhaps new members should acquire a set number of rads before they can post in the forums. It might head off the occasional tidal wave of shit that hits from time to time.
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BlackJesus
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1/23/2007 at 13:42 |
I’d like to see an MY ASSHOLE IS RIPPING |
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middle_age_man
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1/23/2007 at 14:04 |
^ A good illustration of my point.
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HellKat
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1/23/2007 at 14:42 |
Text Wars should have the ability to have you transported, Star Trek style, to visit someone else for the purpose of kicking their ass.
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ghostrider
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1/23/2007 at 15:05 |
^ For a mere pittance, emailed to Vas, you can exact a likewise revenge.
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vasudeva
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1/23/2007 at 16:09 |
Let's stay on track, faggots. My asshole is ripping.
Dragonstaff: Changing the link order to reflect the most-clicked links would only perpetuate their popularity, and push the rest even further down the page. Not such a good idea.
That's sort of the tragedy of humanity, though. You're always going to have the mushy human factor whereby people gang up, pile on, and vote how their friends voted.
Most-viewed would not necessarily correspond directly to most-liked. If people subsequently downvoted the stuff at the top, it would float back down to the bottom. As long as people voted, and voted accurately, any anomalous faggot votes should get drowned out by the consensus.
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ghostrider
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1/23/2007 at 16:17 |
I think it would be nifty to be able to view a list of links submitted under their respective catagories.
fuk, never mind
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mundhra
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1/23/2007 at 18:24 |
sorting on votes/views/random, etc. and filtering on rejects, etc. seems fairly straightforward.
myspace-style user pages? jesus fucking christ, people.
that's all for now.
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JohnLenin
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1/23/2007 at 18:35 |
dragonstaff:
4. For those of us with young families and stealth-kids, maybe a 'porn-swarm' page would be possible. This would remove the problem of accidentally clicking a dodgey link at the wrong time. ( It might also see more good porn links).
I had the same idea a while back. I called it 'Pinkswarm'.
And as far as the myspace-style debacle goes -
perhaps refering to it as mypsace-style is a bad idea. I like the concept and I think it could do great things for the site in ways of organization and traffic. However, people automatically poo-poo it because you group it with myspace. A lot of other places use a similar style user page, and if sculpted with linkswarm hands, this could be a great thing.
I also think a better irc interface would be nice, but the potential increase in traffic leads me to think that more channels would be necessary - I like #megarad the way it is :<. I like how other sites use an irc pop-up applet, and incorporating an auto-login (ls username auto-logs as irc username) would be tits-on-toast.
Another idea is for customizable LS themes, allowing people to chose one of several layouts, and then a menu where they can plug in codes to customize the colors of the background, links, clicked links, text size, etc.
that is all for now.
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Steel
If you want to keep your tongue, don't lick me in the Winter!  SSHOLEPosts: 489 Registered: 10/14/2004 Offline
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1/23/2007 at 19:23 |
In the style of trying to "Think Big" here is one quick thought and something I have been looking to have done rihgt in a site and just haven't been satisfied.
I would love to see...
A) Some allotted Secure Storage Space for alphas. Be able to mark folders public, private or share with certain members.... For File Sharing/ Collaboration on Projects/Written Works etc...
B) Don't know if this is possible, but goes along with the IRC, is Online Collaboration tools. for people who want to chat and log ideas and what not.
C) I do like the thought of a personal Linkswarm... Not the MySpace type of personal page... But more... MyInterweb Portal...
Say I want LS to be my one stop Interweb Shop... I can open and close sections i.e. Journal/Forums/ Links... Using those cool open/closed ">>" or "^" buttons we are starting to see, which dynamically free up space on your shit...
THis way... If I want my daily routing to be Linked in my own section I can have that...
CNN
Daily Show
Whatever
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D) How a bout this?? You guys ever at work... and really want to go to that site?? You know?? The one with the boobies? Or the One with that vid that looks just a little NSFW?
What about a way to mark the page to be pulled into a portal of somesort, so that you can see it without having to visit dickinyourmomsass.com while at work?
E) Along the same lines...Though this is more cosmetic... I love the # Site where all the IRC links go... It would rock if there could be a switch to turn the thumbnail images to full size without having to click them and go to said NSFW site?
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Lownotes
They all float down here.  SSHOLEPosts: 181 Registered: 4/23/2005 Offline
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1/24/2007 at 16:56 |
I'd like to preview my journal entries before submission.
I'd like an easy way to reference other swarmers, submissions, journal entries, forums and such in comments to links and in other areas of the site.
I'd like some sort of window to the rest of the web feature where we can compare what we're talking about to what similar (and shittier) sites are discussing.
I'd like my radfactor to be affected positively when a link gets a bazillion hits or a shitload of comments.
I would like to see the swarm accept YouTube and similar sites by adding some sort of video-only repository that works more efficiently than a journal or forum devoted to YouTube entires.
I would like to see a Rotten Library/Wikipedia type addition to the Swarm where we all contribute to the edification of our audience by explaining things in a particularly LS fashion.
I like the personal pages upgrade idea as long as it serves as an extension of our Swarm identities and doesn't become narcissistic donkey smegma. I'd love to drop a bevy of photos, personal videos, likes and dislikes and so on into it. But, the social networking is already taking place on the higher level of the site's forums and comments - y,know?
I'd like some way to contact everyone here at once, or to contact a specific group of people (like just the Alphas) at once. If this already exists, forgive me.
I'd like some sort of aggregator that allows me to choose how I view the links on the main page. By most comments, by those submitted by alphas, by those submitted by a specific person and so on.
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ghostrider
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1/24/2007 at 17:02 |
Lownotes: I'd like my radfactor to be affected positively when a link gets a bazillion hits or a shitload of comments.
That wouldn't really be fair (not that it matters) as some links stay in the number one spot for awhile due to topicality, interest, etc.
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