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by pedalpete 5868 days ago
I'm not sure that that is a large enough differentiator.

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.

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Yes, that's pretty much what I'm doing. I'm experimenting with adding more meaning to a 'topic' or 'tag'. It does make it a more complicated to add a link, but it allows someone to be more expressive in what they want to see in their news. This should in turn allow a submitter to really target their link to the right audience.