Richard's dashboard

Ahh, I see... so it's more of a matter of priorities for you.

I do understand that... my original account was one of the first 2000 public members, so I have been around awhile... several hundreds of thousands of stumbles later they decide to change everything. I still use the old version because of all the changes.

That being said, I just feel they should tack this on to the list of things to do. – Richard, on December 06, 2009 17:08

Charles -
The thing is, for me at least, is I usually only like part of a person's stumbles. Nobody is identical to me, so their interests are different. For me, friends are not simply people who know me well enough to know exactly what I like - those people see me on a regular basis and can talk with me about stuff if they want. For me, friends is a way to connect with truly original people on SU, to get to content I might not normally get to - and when I share something, it is because I think that person will specifically like it... however, as I got more and more friends, I realized that - I don't remember what certain people really liked.

I just think the addition would make for a more productive sharing system.

And besides, you would not be forced to use it... you could still send things to whomever you wanted. This would simply suggest what you might want and might not want to send to someone. – Richard, on December 06, 2009 16:36

How do you think SU knows what to stumble for you? The coding would not be too difficult - simply link the persons name with their tag cloud - putting a percentage estimation of interested based on a persons tag cloud and/or personal tagging interests. For instance, if they REALLY like photography and they REALLY like animals, then a page with those two tags would be a 100% interest possibility. Likewise, if a person REALLY likes photography, but has never thumb up an animal picture, or has never tagged anything as "animals" - sending them a picture of an animal with photograhy AND animals would be a less likely interest percentage.

Furthermore, the amount of stumbling I do is too vast for me to be constantly checking my subscriptions favorites pages to see what the uploaded lately - especially since, i might only like a certain aspect of that stumblers favorites. I make friends with interesting people who I think will send me interesting things that I haven't stumble yet - this would help strengthen SU relationship, by eliminating superfluous shares. This has nothing to do with be a social network, but it does increase the efficiency.

Also, what I just said made me think of another thing - If they were to incorporate this, it would be WONDERFUL if they could black our a persons name if they have already thumbed the page up or down. Even my best friends who actually know me send me stuff ALL the time that I have already reviewed or seen - some days I wake up with 30 stumbles sent to me and I have already seen 25 of them. – Richard, on December 06, 2009 16:27

a bump so this idea doesnt get lost - people would love this

"...do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!"
Yes, i just brought JFK into this! and he says "ask not what stumblers can do for you, ask what you can do For Stumblers!!!"

**massive applause** – Richard, on December 03, 2009 23:10

I am assuming the op mean "interest" and not "topic"

I would agree with Charles, but I think that bird watching is most specific than just pictures of birds or info about birds.

I am not a bird watcher myself, but I am assuming there are websites that give helpful tips and what not.

I see no reason not to include this as an interest.

No... especially not an autoplay. Now maybe a stumble player mashed up with a persons last.fm account or simply based on their music choices in their info page.

The problem with using the tag cloud is that in order to know if a person would like the site you are sharing, you would have to go to their page, see if that is one of their big similarities, go back to your shared site, and then send it...
this would make it so that you can maintain a closer connection with the friends youve made by making it easier to send them pages they will really enjoy.

Maybe when you scroll over a name in "share" drop down (in the SU bar), a tooltip could pop out to the side with their tag cloud as it does in their prophile. – Richard, on December 03, 2009 15:24

still waiting for an SU officer's input on this subject.

I know SU allows them, which is why I want them to NOT allow them, lol.

lol of course not you - just take away the "d" in "dextra"

I still use the old setup, and you can too! :) The fact that they are letting us use the old version while new people get their first stumble-dose with the new layout, is brilliant.

but Erick, that is what I was saying - it is still being developed, and the features that people want back (like the similarity graph) are being created and placed into the new format. I am simply saying that the reason they have these feedback channels is because they want to know what you like about both so that they can build a a near perfect version – Richard, on October 23, 2009 15:26

The fact of the matter is, like every other site where people have profiles and information, after a while you will simply get used to it and use it just as often. Look at a site like facebook -- less than a year ago they completely revamped their site and nobody liked it... in fact millions of people said they hated it. But facebook kept it and people learned to like and use it. The thing that SU is doing that FB did not, is listening to their users -- all the stuff people are complaining about they will work to make the most acceptable to everyone. I am still using the older version until they really work out all the kinks and oddities of the new version, however, just be grateful that the SU comminuty is pro-active enough that we all take time to throw our two cents in - that is something no other site of this size has, which is why SU will remain top notch.