I suggest a new section to the frontpage: friends favorites. It would show the projects your friends added as favorite (obviously) ;)
I think it's a cool idea because if you add people that share your interests as friends, your friends will favorite the projects you are looking for.
I don't know why but I got the idea when looking at Cheddargirl's thread .
Discuss :)
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Me want.
In addition to the above, I also think greater access to friends favorites is a great way to give some projects more exposure. Suppose you fave a project and you want all your friends to view it - unless your friends constantly keep going to your user page or you tell them about the project or the project hits the front page, they are probably unlikely to see the project; but with a friend's favorites channel slot, the project become more exposed and more likely to be viewed and faved by your friends, which will in turn, be more exposed and faved by their friends, and so on.
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I support completely.
cheddargirl wrote:
but with a friend's favorites channel slot, the project become more exposed and more likely to be viewed and faved by your friends, which will in turn, be more exposed and faved by their friends, and so on.
That reminds me of Pandemic 2 because you try to spread a disease
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I agree
But one thing I would add is the name of who favourited it. Then, if one of your friends had similar interests, you would be more likely to view the project.
Maybe it could also check that the project author's username is different from the favouriter's username - otherwise people might try to get more people to view it by favouriting their own project (I'm not sure if this would be possible, though).
Last edited by Wolfie1996 (2010-03-26 14:45:12)
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Wolfie1996 wrote:
I agree
But one thing I would add is the name of who favourited it. Then, if one of your friends had similar interests, you would be more likely to view the project.
Maybe it could also check that the project author's username is different from the favouriter's username - otherwise people might try to get more people to view it by favouriting their own project (I'm not sure if this would be possible, though).
Oh yeah- those are really good points!
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Wow, thanks for the support
cheddargirl wrote:
[...] with a friend's favorites channel slot, the project become more exposed and more likely to be viewed and faved by your friends, which will in turn, be more exposed and faved by their friends, and so on.
That was the idea I had in mind - I just didn't express myself too well xD
The cool thing is that in theory, because users seem to add users as friends they look up to or really like, this 'Friends Favorites' box will show projects and people they like to users and form networks of people sharing the same interests will form.
(Friends' of Friends projects - facebook style - would do the same but would probably cause enormous database stress)
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Me likey.
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I support this! Tweebee!
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This is a cool idea! I like it too. I can see it helping to create informal interest groups with out a lot of new structures in Scratch.
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I made a mock-up of what this could look like
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Wolfie1996 wrote:
I made a mock-up of what this could look like
http://i42.tinypic.com/eg64xu.jpg
That would look nice But then we have the old problem of the front page over flowing. Maybe an option whether you want it or not?
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Hmm... I've been thinking about that... what about something like this on all the "categories" of projects?
This may also solve the problem of people complaining about the front page - people could simply hide the categories that they don't want to see.
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Cool idea! (And awesome mockups Wolfie!)
I agree - this would be neat way to see what's going on with your friends, and link you to their friends as well. We always have a long list of feature requests, and not a lot of resources, but I'll see what I can do to advocate for this one.
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Lightnin wrote:
Cool idea! (And awesome mockups Wolfie!)
I agree - this would be neat way to see what's going on with your friends, and link you to their friends as well. We always have a long list of feature requests, and not a lot of resources, but I'll see what I can do to advocate for this one.
Yeah, I definitely think you should put this under "seriously think about"
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Thanks, Lightnin I hope this does get put forward.
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I really like this idea too! It would serve to further the advantage of having a friend system at all.
(Thinking slightly off topic: Also, I wish I was able to organize my favorites. Well, that's like galleries, except galleries can also be edited by multiple users. I think favorites, love its and galleries (and even tags maybe) are partially competing ideas might be combined or simplified somehow... perhaps.)
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