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495 sats \ 14 comments \ @siggy47 5 Jun 2023 bitcoin

Now that we have the recent updates at SN that allow subscribing to posts, I have been thinking more about how to dig up old content. I discovered @nout's profile page while looking at some of the original SN posts. I also found this discussion: #49105

You should go to his bio to see what he's talking about.

There seemed to be some support for his ideas. It would seem to me to be even more relevant now, as SN has grown since then and has much more content. Is there any interest in doing something like this?

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20 sats \ 12 replies \ @ek 5 Jun 2023

I love digging up old content since there isn't enough content on SN yet.

There are some gems in there [0,1] which show the evolution of SN over the last 2 years.

So I agree, it would be nice to dig up good old content easier.

There were already some internal discussions regarding this to make the algorithm less dependent on the time or create a new feed with more old content iirc.

[0] #7252 [1] #44287

100 sats \ 11 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Jun 2023

I had some time to kill last night so I started wandering around the first posts. That's how I stumbled upon @nout's profile. The two links you posted were great. I forgot to mention that if some version of the bio page idea is implemented, it would be good to have the ability to subscribe to a bio.

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek 5 Jun 2023

When subscribing to a bio, would you like to get notifications about every post and comment or only about every post?

100 sats \ 9 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Jun 2023

Every comment would probably become overwhelming if it's an active user. Maybe just posts.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 5 Jun 2023

What if we add a RSS feed for every user profile. Would you use that or would you still like to have dedicated notifications on SN?

408 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Jun 2023

I would use an rss feed. What I found interesting was @nout's actual suggestion re the bio page. It looked like @k00b liked it in July of 2022. Obviously he really did his up with html. I'm thinking of doing a simpler one maybe linking to a few posts. His suggestion involved each bio page having auto updated post links, I think.

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 5 Jun 2023

Obviously he really did his up with html

With markdown you mean, I guess ;)

I'm thinking of doing a simpler one maybe linking to a few posts

Sounds cool! Let me know when I can check on it

His suggestion involved each bio page having auto updated post links, I think.

Yes. Every discussion is considered an "original". But it looks like discussion posts which are just questions shouldn't be considered "originals". It's more meant like blog posts. So it could be hard to tell which discussion should really be included in a profile bio like this.

Also, this reminds me a lot of "pins" like pinning repos on GH (the ones you want to show off).

511 sats \ 4 replies \ @nout 6 Jun 2023

I would suggest think from a perspective of folks that generate great content - what do they need the most? Think Matt Odell, Jimmy Song, but then also less known folks that post great content here.

What do they need?

I think they would enjoy having a great profile page that showcases their content, links to their other accounts and profiles, essentially stands as their homepage in the bitcoin and nostr world. Make the profile showcase the person in their best light.

To your question about contend editing - I think there needs to be some free-form space for folks to use and then maybe couple other building blocks to choose from, like recent comments, recent posts, etc. But think through it, make it really sweet experience. Think about how you would best pimp up your profile and then implement it in a way so everyone gets that automatically.

Couple of ideas to consider

Allow people associating their various accounts from SN (twitter, nostr, reddit, youtube, etc), maybe even do some nice verification scheme.
If the person has a mailing list, let them connect it and maybe even streamline subscribing to it.
Defaults matter. There can be a smart default, e.g. if the person posts highly voted long posts, then show a list of those by default. And then everyone can customize it a bit if they want.
Pull people's Nostr posts and just show them under the profile page.
Maybe allow creation of Nostr profiles from this experience. Why not?
Do a bit of gamification, have some fun stats on the profile page, maybe automated badges ("received more than 100k sats", "replied more than 10 times in a day"...), this is what @kr was suggesting and has mocks for.
Allow people to associate their existing content (maybe add as a new post). Let's say I'm Jameson Lopp, how do I "add" all my blog posts to Stacker News profile?
What about SN subscribing to an RSS feed that the person chooses? Like if I'm posting on medium or whatever platform, it would be cool if SN automatically gets that and adds it to my profile, but I would say it should not show automatically in the "recent", but only after actual person adds it to SN, then it would show in "recent".
In the UX, think about pinning, like if I'm modifying my profile page, I'd like to be able to choose from couple things but just "pinning" them.
Also it would help everyone if you actually have markdown editor with formatting bar (maybe even WYSIWYG)

The success metrics

People viewing the profiles (so pageviews & DAUs) and engaging with them (a bit harder in privacy respecting way, but if there are db writes anyway, you get stats for those)
Number of folks that post great content that also pimped up their profile

It's getting a bit late, so above is probably full of typos, but hopefully it helped - let me know. I'm also happy to jump on a call and say hi ;)

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 5 Jun 2023

He would probably be able to explain his idea better than I can. Yes, markdown! I'm no coder.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 2 Aug 2023

Welcome aboard!