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dw_suggestions comm: it's where people submit suggestions and the DW team uses the feedback there to gauge interest in features. For example, a recent one proposes using the @username syntax in addition to the current <user name="username">.
Anyway, here's some suggestions that I submitted just now:
- ability to crosspost to a DW community
- adding comments to Memories and creating round-up posts from Memories
- adding tagging and cropping to image uploads
There's actually an old suggestion about kudos: https://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/532315.html I haven't read the comments, but
And re: reblogs --
I think that tumblr reblogs have a few things conflated together — (a) to share the post with your followers, (b) to show appreciation for the post and creator, and (c) to add comments to the post.
For (b), it might be a quick “squee!” comment, and for (c), it might be a longer, more considered comment, followed by a post to your own blog with “I left a comment about this here”
For (a) sharing the post with your followers, the current way to do it on DW is to have a roundup post on DW, or just a post on your blog being like “I read this post, and it gave me feels”. The benefit of that is that it lowers the amount of reblog spam on your reading page, and actually encourages thoughtful comments. The downside of that is that it's currently hard to do (you have to manually copy the link, create new post, etc), and there's much less incentive to click through if it's an image.
Maybe one way to do it is that the reblogged post content automatically get put behind a cut, and you have to write an intro to it? That'd at least solve the spam issue. And of course rebloggability is opt-in.
dw_suggestions comm: it's where people submit suggestions and the DW team uses the feedback there to gauge interest in features. For example, a recent one proposes using the @username syntax in addition to the current <user name="username">. Anyway, here's some suggestions that I submitted just now:
- ability to crosspost to a DW community
- adding comments to Memories and creating round-up posts from Memories
- adding tagging and cropping to image uploads
There's actually an old suggestion about kudos: https://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/532315.html I haven't read the comments, but
And re: reblogs --
I think that tumblr reblogs have a few things conflated together — (a) to share the post with your followers, (b) to show appreciation for the post and creator, and (c) to add comments to the post.
For (b), it might be a quick “squee!” comment, and for (c), it might be a longer, more considered comment, followed by a post to your own blog with “I left a comment about this here”
For (a) sharing the post with your followers, the current way to do it on DW is to have a roundup post on DW, or just a post on your blog being like “I read this post, and it gave me feels”. The benefit of that is that it lowers the amount of reblog spam on your reading page, and actually encourages thoughtful comments. The downside of that is that it's currently hard to do (you have to manually copy the link, create new post, etc), and there's much less incentive to click through if it's an image.
Maybe one way to do it is that the reblogged post content automatically get put behind a cut, and you have to write an intro to it? That'd at least solve the spam issue. And of course rebloggability is opt-in.
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Date: 2018-12-12 04:50 pm (UTC)Honestly, I would want some sort of thing that pings me when people reblog something of mine, OR when they mention my username somewhere. Otherwise how can I keep up with the discussion, if they just reblog silently and don't let me know?
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Date: 2018-12-12 06:25 pm (UTC)Good point about the notifications. It'd be great to have some sort of Activity Feed here. We do get emails for comments, but maybe that can be a bit more refined.
That said, sometimes I think people want to have a branching discussion? Like, if I want to talk about tangential thoughts but I don't want to join the primary comment threads on the actual post? I feel like the move to DW requires us to more closely examine what we want out of fandom social interactions, which is a good thing! :)