RE: Sugar Steem - A more personalized Steem UI - MY PROFILE final

[theuxyeti]

yes my REAL questions are DO people USE "Trending" or "New"... I dont ever use Trending. But I use New sometimes hoping to find some hidden gems to read. I think theres a chance that a "Discovery" Tree image with words that are popular based on size would be great. Unsure if to take this a step further could we build a widget that changes on its own based on whats popular etc. that might be too wild... Would love to see an example of this though... are there any sites building discoverable content that is popular in a word tree etc... ahhh open source word tree where are you lol

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[r351574nc3]

Whether people use something and it being useful are two separate things. People use the Rewards section because there are no alternatives, but generally, it's NOT useful. The same goes for Trending and New. People use them because there's nothing else, but in most cases they're NOT useful.

It is probably better to FIX these problems. Here are a couple alternatives.

1. Lists (instead of favorites). Add lists (which are like custom tags) that contain a self-curated list of users. You can subscribe to lists of other users as well. For example, @Steemcleaners or @Dan can maintain lists of users they favor for content. Then you can view those lists.
   • In app Growls. When you're reading a post, you can get notifications for comments and posts from lists or otherwise.
2. Recommendations (a recommendation system like netflix) where content is recommended to you based on what's in the content and tag information. This can also be used to detect tag abuse.
3. Multitenancy. Steemit recently released a microservice (that blows) to promote community development within the blockchain. It would be worthwhile to build a UX that support separate look and feels depending on the community. Some communities are anti-spam, some are curation, some are voting, etc... and all communities have their own tools, focus, and uses. The cases vary and it would be worthwhile for the look and feel to change accordingly.

[theuxyeti]

I don’t like the first 2 at all, definitely doing a favorites functionality it’s going to be great to personalize the experience. I hate lists! The 3rd choice has value though i don’t want to do this either in my ui. Too much side projects on stuffthat doesn’t support the main direction of my ui. Great ideas though and good for future updates but definitely not in my mvp for the build process.

[r351574nc3]

You don't like lists? One of the problems people have with the feed is that when you follow a lot of people, your feed is a flood. It's not parseable at all and impossible to curate. If you have lists you can separate the feed into parsable segments.

• Crypto
• Bots
• Witnesses
• Athletes
• Friends
• Family
• Spammers

It makes it easier for you to go straight to content you're interested in. I guess favorites are good for content discovery. Personally though, my feed is more important to me than content discovery.

[theuxyeti]

yea i dont want to sort the content of lists by topic tag. thats not an interest. Being able to favorite a user ha or see what tags of categories they like or i like have value but sorting through a "my feed" by topic isnt really too valuable. Its not something globally usable really... Being able to sort between a toggle of resteemed content and organic content in a feed is enough. the average user isnt going to sift through a bunch of tags to find a topic written by a particular user.

[theuxyeti]

favorite the user. then use that list of people to read through their posts. This way you havent isolated a user to a specifc micro topic instead you are filtering by user to allow a list of all of their topics

[r351574nc3]

Well, the thing about lists is that

1. You can have a user in more than one list, so I don't think you're really isolating them. For example, @dan can be in
   • Friends
   • Crypto
   • Developers
2. Lists can be subscribed/shared by other users. @dan again for example could have a list of crypto analysts he follows, and maybe I want to follow the same ones. I can just subscribe to the same list.
3. Lists aren't tags. They're collections of users. A user can be in the gamers list and post a movie review. Lists are more about the people in them than the content.

Favorites is good. It's like if you could only have one list, who would you put in it? I just think it's unreasonable to expect that people only want one list.

[theuxyeti]

yea for now i just want 1 list. perhaps a top 20 i squashed that a while ago. but for now have 1 list and test it in the UI if it works we can add more lists.

[fiberartists]

LOL! I don't personally use the trending but NEW is worth using. I like this too. As for a discovery tree that changes would be amazing! I wish you luck with that endeavor.

[theuxyeti]

yea i think that is too crazy and misdirected of my time, money etc... lol... but a happy compromise would be something that allows users to discover content. I would agree that trending does not have much value to me or you, but i want to see what all these higher ups think etc. it would suck to remove that and find out users use that.