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180 sats \ 5 replies \ @uco 16 Jul 2022 \ parent \ on: [SN Feature Request] Follow feature bitcoin
For simplicity now: I would vote for a one time paid “follow fee”
Creators could set and change the fee.
Set a low fee to attract followers and gradually increase fee as your reputation for quality content increases.
Future enhancement: Allow creators to set subscription follow fees. Users would pay on a monthly basis for ability to follow creators.
That could create an interesting incentive to follow quality accounts early before prices go up.
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Exactly!
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i like where you’re going here.
one thing to consider is how this feature works with or against the existing stacker news main page.
on stacker news, like reddit & hn, the best ideas get the most visibility.
on twitter, or other sites with follow buttons, the most popular people get the most visibility.
i wonder if it makes sense for these two ideas to be separated entirely on stacker news. too much cross-mingling could cause popular users to always end up on top of the main page, no matter what they write.
one way to split the two concepts could be with an opt-in subscribe feature where users only use it if they want to subscribe to people, and those users aren’t able to impact the ranking algorithm for the main site by upvoting subscriber content.
users who want to subscribe to other users would still get a timeline feed of interesting ideas from their favorite people, and users who don’t want to follow people wouldn’t even notice any changes to the site.
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Great point! This would probably require a re-design of the main page for SN that allows the user to see organic content vs. curated content. Might also require a whole new UI so not sure where that falls on the road map/priority for SN.
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@kr, I think this is a good model to start with.
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