| I've been thinking about putting a spin on social news and I decided to put up a prototype to test my idea. The idea/twist is simply this: Use full sentences as a subreddit name. So instead of subscribing to subreddits: - worldnews - technology You would 'subscribe' to: - I am interested in world news. - I am interested in technology news. You can subscribe to other 'full sentence' subreddits like: - I love Star Trek. - I need a student loan. - I enjoy rock climbing. - I am worried about the global economy. Thus, submitting a link would look like: - Title: Greek tremors continue to rock markets - CNN.com - URL: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/05/05/... - Target this link to people with this profile: -- I am interested in world news.
-- I am interested in technology news.
-- I am worried about the global economy.
The difference may look minor, but I think it provides an interesting twist on submitting links.For example, here's another possible submission: - Title: Star Trek club is more than ‘stereotypical nerds’ - URL: http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/04/22/star-trek-club-is-more... - Target this link to people with this profile: -- I love Star Trek.
-- I enjoy rock climbing.
If you want to play around with submitting a link, you can use any of these demo accounts:hn_demo1 hn_demo2 hn_demo3 hn_demo4 The password for all of them is: hacker |
If I understand correctly, you're changing 'topics' into sentences. Is that correct?
the nice thing about not having a sentence to assign as a subject is that it is faster for the person adding the link, and doesn't take up as much real estate when navigating.
I was having some serious usability issues with your site. The colors made it VERY difficult to focus on what I was supposed to be looking at. As well, the layout didn't really direct me as to where I should be looking.
Most important, I kept looking at the Social News section, expecting to see the submitted links. Then I thought that maybe i needed to answer the questions before getting the links.
It took a bit before I realized that the links where in the 'recommendations for you' section.
Overall, you've put a huge number of roadblocks between the user and the content, which is a big no-no.