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#1 2007-12-17 13:57:14
- Paddle2See
- Scratch Team
- Registered: 2007-10-27
- Posts: 1000+
Subscribe to People?
It would be nice if you could subscribe to people the way you can subscribe to a forum topic. Then, you would get a message whenever that person posted a new project. I would like this feature as there are certain Scratchers whose work I find really interesting. In order to see if they have done anything new currently, I have to visit their profile and take a look. It would be a lot more efficient if the system did the work, once I made my wishes known.
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#3 2007-12-17 14:23:39
- MartinWollenweber
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2007-04-10
- Posts: 100+
Re: Subscribe to People?
Pro!
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#4 2007-12-17 17:18:54
- kevin_karplus
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2007-04-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Subscribe to People?
This is a good idea. The list of whose work you're watching could be on your "my stuff" page. (Sort of like the "friends" list, but meaningful and useful.)
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#6 2007-12-17 21:32:56
Re: Subscribe to People?
I think RSS feeds would be the way to go. You could just add the person's RSS feed to your RSS reader or to your browser's live bookmark
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#7 2007-12-18 12:16:33
Re: Subscribe to People?
An icon like the forum has when new messages are posted would work if it appeared next to your "friends" when you visited your page. I'm not familiar with RSS, but it appears that software is needed on the receiving end, which may be a problem for some people or for accessing your account from different computers.
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#8 2007-12-18 15:33:46
- kevin_karplus
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2007-04-27
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Subscribe to People?
Perhaps galleries could also have a notification component. Any galleries you subscribe to give you a notification when a project is added to the gallery. It would make "subscription" have some meaning. (Of course, the notification should be of the form "47 projects have been added to Gallery fireworks", not 47 separate notifications.)
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#10 2008-02-03 00:40:01
Re: Subscribe to People?
RSS feeds are now available on some sections of the website to let you subscribe to people. A browser like Firefox or IE6 allow you to get updates there directly as well as tons of RSS readers such as Google Reader.
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#11 2008-02-03 01:02:25
- MyRedNeptune
- Community Moderator
- Registered: 2007-05-07
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Subscribe to People?
I love this idea!
But I have IE7 and I could just subbscribe using the little icon in my toolbar...
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#12 2008-02-03 09:21:36
- funkymonkey
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2007-06-03
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Subscribe to People?
whats RSS feed?
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#13 2008-02-03 11:45:01
Re: Subscribe to People?
That's great MyRedNeptune. How did you learn what RSS feeds are? I am having a hard time trying to explain it in a simple way. Maybe some should create a Scratch project explaining what they are.
funkymonkey, check this video http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english and let me know if it answers the question.
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