Enter: The Community Feed
Posted October 29th, 2009 by andrewWe’re excited to announce the new, live community feed — we’ve been playing around with it for the last week and it’s proven to be really exciting to show us where the action is happening on the site — from celebrating great questions to showing us who has entered the fabled 10K mansion, we hope you enjoy it as much as we are.
There also may or may not be tie-ins with the awards system, as well, so keep tuned as we release a new batch of them…
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October 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I like it! Except for the part where it features Great Answers which I think kind of makes it less useful. How many GAs does it take to show up on the feed?
October 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Neat! Thanks!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
It’s awesome!!!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
@EP It only shows GA that are 30 seconds new. We’ll probably tweak things.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
@ EmpressPixie We’re still playing with that. Right now the Community Feed only shows GAs that are less than 30 seconds old, otherwise it would overwhelm everything else. But we liked have some in there so everyone can feel how much activity there is.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Fabulous, fabulous.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@andrew beat me to it.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I like this modification, for a change.
How about randomizing or refreshing the “Siblings” from time to time instead of always having the same ones? When you run out of other things to do, of course.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Daddy like.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
@Bendrew: In that case, it’s fantastic! I love it!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Kickass!
October 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I like it how I can stalk people I don’t have on my fluther.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Wow, I’m already obsessed with this thing. Great work, it’s awesome.
Again, daddy like.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
love it.
question: will there be a feature for it in the iphone app?
October 29th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
MEE LIKEY
October 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
I liked it until it started giving me a complex. All these people being added to fluthers, willy nilly. Now I’m going to be up all night staring at the live feed, waiting for my turn to shine!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I actually find it a bit annoying and “TMI” but I can ignore it.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Erm, it reminds me of the new Facebook “news feed”, which I hate. The jury is still out, for me.
October 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Looks interesting. I agree, MissAusten. I’m not in there, either.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I like it. I know you guys have been working on this (and wanting it) forever, so GREAT JOB! Seriously.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I’m not really feeling it. I’m not big on new features that don’t have a practical, utility based purpose. This just seems distracting.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Same as the awards, not mind blowing, but well executed. Good job.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
jbfletcherfan, I just saw you right at the top! hooray!
October 29th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Ziggy zaggy!
October 29th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I’m not sure I like it. I don’t think I need to know every GA/GQ or when someone is added to someone’s Fluther, etc. If it’s going to stay, any way it can be put below the lurve box?
October 29th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
I’m with Allie, below the lurve box might be better.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
OMFG, I love this.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
I agree with Allie.
http://imgur.com/ebFn7.png
October 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
This is a cool feature. I love that we can track people’s major lurve moments through this!
October 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Not particularly useful. Seeing which comments get GA’s is kind of cool, but everything else is rather pointless. I really don’t care if ::insert user name:: was added to a a fluther.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
I like the fact that it shows when new people join, that’s pretty cool. Showing great answers and stuff like that, not sure if I like that or not. Seems a waste of bandwidth. Good when it shows folks have reached certain K levels, tho.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
I third the “below the lurve box” notion.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
I made a quick tutorial on removing it with Firefox, Greasemonkey, and Platypus.
http://www.weshouldbedancing.com/fluther/community.mov
I love the idea. The placement just bothers me.
October 30th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I should add that I would love to see it ass a full screen page. Like it could present the answer the GA was given for too. And maybe even the question too.
Maybe something like http://cursebird.com/ That does a obvious live update.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:57 am
The feed told me I got a Pilgrim award and I still don’t know what its for. Those Atlantis awards are a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
October 30th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Please let us opt out of this. I don’t have to look at questions if I think they are dumb. Why do you force upon me a list of dumb?
October 30th, 2009 at 10:41 am
So by commenting on here I get live feed??? Sorry I’m no good at this sort of thing!!
October 30th, 2009 at 11:34 am
It looks like they just put the Lurve on the top. Well played sirs. This is much better.
October 30th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Way to go guys. great new feature!
Bucky asked already.. but will this be a feature on the iphone app?
October 30th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Is the feature gone now? I don’t see it any longer. It was starting to grow on me.
October 30th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
gah! It’s back…never mind.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
We had taken it down for a little bit because we were rerunning some awards scripts and it was flooding the feed.
October 30th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
@johnpowell Already planned, and in the works.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Maybe a day is long enough for 10k announcements?
November 1st, 2009 at 12:00 am
I don’t see it. And I’m not using the iPhone version of it.
November 1st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Yay, it moved!
November 1st, 2009 at 11:26 pm
After testing the thing out, I’m really quite pleased with it. It allows me to see when people have received a GQ, and it draws me to whatever question they could’ve asked (I have a curious heart). Also, it allows me to see who has joined the collective and who has been added to a Fluther (”Hmm.. Why are they being added? What did they do? I’d better go check them out”).
November 5th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I think these new features are cute but a bit annoying. If you want to improve the site, find ways of organizing and searching for questions by multiple criteria, or perhaps consider forming different types of forums.