I've been contemplating modifications and options that would reduce it's prominence, but I haven't settled on anything yet. I'm actually considering removing it for a few days, just to get a feel for the site without it. That said, the usefulness of the all posts page might diminish on its own as activity increases. There's just something about it that doesn't sit right with me.
Now, building off of that, I think it would be interesting if your personal profile page had kind of break down and analysis of the content you most visited. so while i think that i might not like #agriculture that much, as it turns out hubski is telling me that i've read 40 articles in the past three months with that tag then i might have to reconsider my position. similar to the way online banking systems will breakdown how much you spend on a particular thing ie. rent, food, entertainment. so you can say "Holy Shit! I spent $10,000 last year on beer!" Could be interesting.
I'm going to do some more work in this direction, but I want to take it stepwise. In the end, I'll probably separate out 'profile preferences' and personal recommendations and analysis into their own pages. Anyway, thanks for the idea. More to come!
I tend to agree with that. Now, building off of that, I think it would be interesting if your personal profile page had kind of break down and analysis of the content you most visited. I like this idea. As I mentioned above, I am considering converting the popular page into a more generalized discovery page. This would be a good idea for that page. -Thanks!
One thing, I do like how most people are discerning about content they share. That's a valuable thing, IMO. I don't want to spoil that aspect.
I appreciate the desire to leverage the person-based discovery of content, but the fact of the matter is, "All posts" exists because your current approach doesn't adequately parse Hubski. The way to diminish the "schizophrenic" usage of the site is to improve the functionality of "follow", not eliminate the functionality of "all." FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a programmer. You could tell me how you're coding all this and I wouldn't understand well enough to offer suggestions. So take this with a grain of salt: You have to have a pretty good idea, down there in your data, of what we click on and what we don't. You also have to have a pretty good idea as to what we comment on and what we don't. The way to do "follow-based" discovery wouldn't be an "all" button but, perhaps, a "mutate" button. Spitball up a variation on the statistical approximation of what I'm following, tweak a couple things, and spit that new profile back to me to let me see what else is out there. This allows me to dig more into the "social" aspect of it and less into the "all" aspect of it (because sometimes it's important to know what everyone else sees, too, I don't ever want that to go away). I use Absynth a lot. It allows you to do this. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
This whole conversation is good, and it's giving me some food-for-thought. The pattern here seems to be that everyone would appreciate better ways to find good content. That's where I am going to turn my focus. I don't want to add just a bunch of functionality, however. I'm going to put some serious thought into making a discovery page that is both useful and pleasing to use.