Feature suggestion: Show the "Post a new topic" button on the front page
Hi everyone, first of all, thank you for creating and maintaining this site - I don't think I've ever seen a more constructive and friendly general-purpose community online. :)
In the last few weeks, after getting access to tildes, I stumbled multiple times over an interesting article that I thought that would fit on Tildes. But I didn't see a button to post it on here. I assumed it has to be something related to rating or account age. I was wondering how long it would take. Maybe a month?
The volume of posts here is pretty low, so I never saw a reason to visit one of the groups - I only visited the front page. Only now I found out, that the button to post something is only visible if the user is currently on the page of a group.
I don't know if this happened to someone else, but I personally find it really unintuitive that there isn't a button on the front page to post a topic. Reddit, Lemmy, Discourse etc. all have it like that.
Did anyone have a similar experience? Or was this a concious choice?
I have no experience in online behaviour / design but I wonder if the current way is beneficial overall. I could imagine it reducing low-effort posts in particular.
I was slower to get involved in this site than others but when I did, I did so with more intention and mindfulness than other platforms.
Again, I’m just an armchair enthusiast with no real knowledge of these things. Maybe I’m wrong.
Many design decisions on Tildes go in the opposite direction than most social media. Engagement is not the ultimate goal. Users shouldn't feel compelled to post unless they have something good. Deimos expressed many times a desire for people to use Tildes less. So yeah, that design is probably intentional. We should have a healthy relationship with our online communities. I'm not saying I personally do. But that's the idea.
This is well and good, but if folks don’t know they even can post, I’d say that’s still a problem. Just depends on if there’re others who’ve had the same issue or not, and if so, what fix would be best.
I think the way it’s set up now is actually smart. If you are posting a recent article, going to the relevant tag makes you check if it’s already been posted. It also give you examples of the kind of posts with that tag, so if you have a topic that could fit in multiple tags, you think about it a bit more.
Welcome.
I hope you do Post articles now that you have figured it out. The three cheers app works the way you want it to.
I'm not going to lie; I do find it mildly annoying. But at the same time the annoyance of pressing the button and then selecting a group feels like it might be a bit more zesty.
Haha, I have no idea if you consider zesty to be a good or a bad thing.
Less mild, so bad.