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I want Friends :)
Some sort of "friends" feature would be a welcome addition. I've had some great conversations with folks and would like to be able to keep track of them so 1) I can remember that I like them and 2) so I can keep up with their interesting posts.
Thanks for considering!
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I mentioned it in the previous thread and I'll say it again. This is exactly part of the reason why people are moving away from reddit. This platform doesn't need to turn into a social network.
What we do need is the for the search feature to come in sooner rather than later so people stop making the same posts as two days prior.
While I agree that a search feature would be of interest, I am deeply concerned that it will NOT achieve what you state (i.e preventing people from making the same posts over and over again).
People that want an answer fast will post a new topic, even if there was already 1,2 or 10 in the past week.
On Reddit, one feature made me realize that I was reposting and that feature was the fact that, sometime , posting twice the same link was recognized and it actively told me that there was already a post like the one I was going to create.
On the other hand, nothing except moderators ever prevented anyone from creating a new text post similar to previously posted ones.
And that task is especially difficult when the amount of people using the service keep increasing
Absolutely, the search feature wont solve all the problems but it will at least alleviate some of the frustration people who genuinely would not repost otherwise might have. There will always be people who don't care to check, but search will make it easier to check for those who do. And then again, as the website grows, reposts, hopefully wont get to the front page / get as much activity. Although if Reddit's any indication, that's a wet dream...
I also think that having a search feature will make it easy to find threads you've read previously that you might need to come back to. I feel like if we don't have a search feature, many important threads will be lost as time goes on with no way to easily go back to them.
"Friends" have been a feature on reddit since like 2008.
They have not been aggressively pushing it on people since 2008 though. The new UI and the whole subscribe to people's feeds thing is a new addition. It's less about the feature itself and more about the slippery slope.
The user's label is something I think @deimos wanted to add sooner or later but there are definitely higher priority for the core code, that's why I added it in the extension instead.
You can always the tildes extension and tag people that you like.
I think it would be a better fit for tildes if you could just tag people for easy identification. A list of tagged people might be a good compromise so you have easy access to their profiles to see what they've been up to.
It's a very light, optional feature if done that way and wouldn't change how Tildes works.
I think if you do end up having a conversation with another user you'll most likely recognise their name after a few interactions. Like @Except said it's probably better to not turn the site into a social network, and so a friend feature becomes rather redundant. This of course does not mean that people can't make friends and check out each others posts, I've only being using the site a couple of days but I already am recognising usernames in various threads. Admittedly this is because the userbase is still relatively small but still, the more you interact with a specific user the more you'll remember their name.
There are some people I've seen around that I think are particularly reasonable, or kind, and have thought "oh man, i'd like to 'friend' these people, or add them to a 'cool people' list". Since I'm accustomed to being able to "follow" people on social networks like twitter or reddit, I think I sort of just looked around for a way to do that and then gave up when i realized there isn't one built in to the site. However, now that I think about it, it wouldn't be that much more work to just bookmark their profile pages, or to remember the names in my own mind. I wonder if I've become lazy due to website design.
Hey Pilgrim. I’ll be your friend :)
I don’t think it will become a built in feature, but it’s easy enough to fake on our own. For example, you can bookmark or save to home screen each other’s profiles to see what’s up. Ex:
https://tildes.net/user/Adams
https://tildes.net/user/Pilgrim
There is a direct message option, so it should be pretty much like there is a built in friends feature.
Thanks Adams! It's good to have friends. :)
I'm a bit surprised by the push back I've gotten from others actually. I never felt that the Friends feature in Reddit was used much by others or particularly intrusive, and all I was really looking for was a integrated way to keep a list of friends to check up on. However, bookmarks certainly work, if slightly less elegant.