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@neoprofilefollowcoder, reader, guitarist, seeker, builder.replied to@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.:
1. "my textlog" (for the textlogs i should read) -- analogous to "wall" (my wall of text). 2. "inbox" (messages & notifications directly sent to me)
@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.replied to@eatziprofilefollowEat, drink, listen to 🎶, & watch the fish. Occasionally cook.:
Probably. There's too much ambiguity over a lot of these terms because of how other #socialmedianotesfollow sites (ab)use them. But if "home" means a timeline of those you follow and "@" means replies and mentions, then yes.
@ku🤔profilefollowHai I am kureplied to@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.:
I answered following and inbox because this choice felt like the most logical among the choices presented. However, inbox feels like a chore and not fun. If I could edit it, I would change the inbox to @ like eatzi indicated as well
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.:
I’m leaning to something like “following” and “to you” as they are the most unambiguous. “following” is already the name of the tab in your profile, and it represents exactly the sources of the content of the tab in the home screen. “to you” is already used in the meta prose “X replied to you” so again it falls natural. I agree with @kuprofilefollowHai I am ku that “inbox” sounds like a chore.
@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyersreplied to@hippo🦛profilefollowStrictly no LLMs. No exceptions.:
What the "for you" means? Often I find things there, but, why are they "for me"? What's the criteria? Same for "to me". Are "to me" replies to my notes, or comments, or are they something else? I will start by defining what exactly are those two, before getting into further weeds.
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@fastidiousprofilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." — Sid Meyers:
The thing is, these tabs evolved. They used to have different meaning initially, but now they are doing different things. “For you” contains all conversations you participate including your own posts when they have replies. “To me” contains only replies, mentions and follows directed to you. “Latest” isn’t latest anymore, it’s a feed of all the conversations with the most active one (the one with the most recent reply) bumped to the top. We’ve switched from chronological to conversation views.
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogcontinued:
@ → smallest token, visited less often than the rest, very visible when it has a counter that you need to pay attention to (someone interacted with you) my feed → largest token, this is where you should be spending your time mostly. right now it’s everything you’re following, but in the future might be enriched, so it’s a feed of information, my feed of information hot → obvious, unambiguous all → simply everything that’s posted. clearly communicated.
@unsayprofilefollow#minneapolisnotesfollowreplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
All have different dimensions & shapes. for you -> personalization -> feed / my feed / my textlog / >_ (branded) for me -> directionality -> mentions / my mentions / @me @ is also directionality signifier hot -> popularity -> hot all -> firehose/chronology -> latest, tho it does create a endo-hit Goofy shorthand experiments (maybe superscripts?): >_ @me !hot *all or: >_ @ ! *
@jgprofilefollowNew herereplied to@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
As long as we're doing this, may I put forth that the "hot" tab runs counter to the principle that removing view counts and timestamps seemed to embody? I'd rather have a "random" tab than a hot. I liked your impulse to design around dopamine rather than at it.
@stagas🤸profilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@jgprofilefollowNew here:
I’ve given a lot of thought about that. My thinking was to keep some older nice posts a bit more alive to keep the discussion going. And it works to a percentage. But as it is now with the new conversation views it overlaps a lot with “latest” as the active conversations get bumped to the top anyway, so the current “hot” topics are in latest’s first page naturally. So I might refactor the algorithm a bit to favor top level posts. I think it’s worth it, new users especially discover posts there..
@unsayprofilefollow#minneapolisnotesfollowcontinued:
Furthermore, writing again to your surfaced spaced repetition would, as a side-effect, bubble up to the all & potentially hot feeds making new content visible to others. It's not a fully shaped or realized concept. Just dreaming up other ideas.
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