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_refugee_  ·  3306 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This Old Hubski: What is, and what could be

Don't think I haven't noticed all the tweaks being made to formatting capabilities. I am extremely thankful. Posting poems is much easier when you don't have to double-line between every single break. (Just one example of the changes I've noticed.)

I know I keep critiquing the search function. Really I'm psyched it's gotten better, I just want to share my user experience because, well..things aren't quite 100% yet, and if I can show my end experience as an example of "Hey, I think something's wonky here!" then that's what I'm going to try and do.

    I believe that Hubski should not strive to serve as many people as possible.

I agree. Quality, not quantity. Haters gonna hate. It is really nice and refreshing to see a business which is not driven by numbers - getting the numbers, keeping the numbers, making sure no one else gets to have the numbers either. I am reminded of that post the other day about how it seems it is no longer enough to offer a good product, or a valuable service - everyone wants to offer the #1 BEST PRODUCT, the #1 MOST VALUABLE SERVICE, and anything short of that is somehow failure, and all of this is measured by numbers.

Mindlessly shoving towards a perceived "top" or "best" as measured by "most use" is ugly. It is giving in to popularity contests in lieu of preserving personality, quirkiness, and difference.

"You can be the most juicy, tangerine-colored circle surrounded by littler circles in the entire world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates anything that ain't a straight line." - George Thorogood, 1983

As for what I'd like, it'd be cool if we could just build Hubski out into a little complete Hubski-verse. Sure, build a book exchange into the site, heck let us have our own currency to trade for things. I don't know.

I'm happy with better search and continued improvement to formatting. Just please never add autocapitalization, that shit is the bane of life's existence.

Edit: I would like it if we could sell 3D printers that print 3D printers. That's a good one, I think.