RE: Tangled In The Content Cables - Improve The User Interface Or We All Get Lost!
I can totally understand you in every aspect. I also feel sorry sometimes if I don't follow my new followers or somebody who posted a nice comment under one of my videos.
But I can't follow everybody because my feed would explode. I'm not following that many people but from most of them I'm trying to see every post and I'm still struggling because we also have the Discord chat and I need to produce my own content and of course I also have to work as well...
That's a point at least for me where even a better UI wouldn't make much difference to me. But I like your idea of separating between "news" and "friends" or whatever you would like to call it.
Like you mentioned that there is already a filter for only video like DTube and only memes like dMania. It shouldn't be a big deal to create a customizable UI where you can switch your preferences on tags daily / weekly as well.
We have a guy in our group who is very fit at utopian and if I understood him right it should be really easy to create something like this.
I will ask him if there maybe is already a solution like this and we just haven't found it yet or if somebody is working on that.
Wow that would be great!! Thank You!!! My User Experience stresses me out. And when I imagine we will soon have 1 million, 5 million, 10 million users... it will be more and more important that you can find the content you are really interested in. And we all want at least a little chance to be visible too. When posts people worked on for hours vanish in a couple of minutes and even your followers can't find you... people will lose their ambition to create valuable posts.
I know what you mean. I have so many followers who follow 500+ people. I guess most of them are some "follow for follow guys" who are not a real part of my community. But even if somebody from them followed me because he saw and liked one of my videos it's just like you say. There is no chance of being found on that massive feed again.
A friend of mine told me, she wanted to find one of her own posts yesterday and couldn't find it. Because she would have to scroll back to months ago and with that Google search you would have to know the exact header. ^^ Follow for follow... yes that's not real community. But I can understand it. People just hope to be more visible. One could discuss about it: isn't it just natural human behaviour to follow someone back who follows you? I really would like to sort my followers. You see, I call the people I follow followers, because most of them are. Even when you follow just 50 people who create content every day, that's lots of stuff to look up.