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#1 2010-05-26 02:33:44
Better following and befriending ideas
When you add someone to your friends list on the Scratch website, you aren't really doing anything other than having it so that that person's newest projects are displayed on a front-page category.
I think that adding someone to your friends list should be more than this. Here's an example:
I have a project that I want a few users to beta-test. On upload, I could choose weather to have it so that only my friends could see it so that everybody wouldn't be able to see it. So I could have only my friends beta-test it.
Yes, I do see how this could create problems. Less transparency could be problematic. 
Everyone would be begging to be added to popular peoples' friends list. Any solutions?
And there would be 'following'. Following would be basically what befriending is right now. Having that person't projects show up on your front-page.
Any thoughts, ideas, anyone?
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#2 2010-05-26 02:40:53
Re: Better following and befriending ideas
Yeah - there aren't too many benefits of adding someone to your friend list, apart from that row of the frontpage and that you can clearly have them on your list of friends; the list of users that you like.
About following - well, that's similar to the Subscribe feature... 
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#3 2010-05-26 03:21:04
Re: Better following and befriending ideas
Chrischb wrote:
Yeah - there aren't too many benefits of adding someone to your friend list, apart from that row of the frontpage and that you can clearly have them on your list of friends; the list of users that you like.
About following - well, that's similar to the Subscribe feature...
What do you mean, subscribing?
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#5 2010-05-26 07:44:17
Re: Better following and befriending ideas
Great ideas! I remember before there was the front page section for friends, we were all wondering why the heck we had friends!
Yes, right now, friends do seem a little bit useless. This topic is making me sound antisocial, but we really need some better sort of friend system. I like your ideas on beta-testing - but I don't see any reasonable way to stop that.
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#8 2010-05-27 18:42:38
- shamrocker
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Re: Better following and befriending ideas
Someone who understands my needs!
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#9 2010-05-27 18:47:42
- Lucario621
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Re: Better following and befriending ideas
Chrischb wrote:
Yeah - there aren't too many benefits of adding someone to your friend list, apart from that row of the frontpage and that you can clearly have them on your list of friends; the list of users that you like.
About following - well, that's similar to the Subscribe feature...
To me though, that's all that is needed. Because to me - that's what friends is, on the Scratch Website - it's my one source to projects that aren't spam.
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