I just joined 3 days ago, and I got a list like that
Welcome to Hubski! We actually just changed the new user sign up process. What did you think of it? I'd be interested to know. I think what ooli I is suggesting is that even after you are a part of the community for a a while Hubski will suggest users to follow.
I thought it was just about as good as any new user sign-up for a heavily user-based forum can be. It suggested both people and tags to follow. To follow up with a few other comments, the tags and chatter links at the top are how I discover new content (not specifically related to the tags or people I follow) Idea: Maybe a "most active tags over the past x days" list, much like the twitter "Trending topics"
I wonder if having a trending topics list would stifle serendipity? mk what do you think?
What about something like this on the community page: where the syntax is #tag: [posts in last 24h] | [posts in last 7d] | [lifetime posts] This would allow users to see which tags were popular due to recent events (i.e., if the fist two numbers were very close to the third) or which are popular over the long term. Perhaps the timeframes could be customizable in the user's settings, I could see day, week, month, year, and lifetime each being useful in certain situations.
(the numbers here are foobars)?
Interesting idea neptath, thank you. b_b, what do you think?