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Thanks to anyone who has been using the UserVoice page to submit thoughts about brightlamp. I have a very nice punchlist for this weekend, and rest assured you will be getting your votes back as I close these fairly quick-fix ideas.
Between South Africa and pretty severe project fatigue following the push to beta-01, I haven’t been working on the project at all. But, I am wanting to get started again on a more casual level (while keeping Sigma in mind as the inspiration comes), so these fixes are a good way to jump back in.
I’m very concerned about the next real feature-adding step of the project, as the commenting/tracking/following features are going to be very much a hit or a miss depending on what an active user would want.
My basic ideas are this:
Commenting to a reading by a registered user will be possible. Owners of a reading can delete comments on that reading. While commenting is non-threaded, owners can comment on their own readings.
A “Notable Readers” list concept will be introduced that basically behaves like a friends list. By default, a user’s profile page will also include readings from that user’s notable readers. This can be disabled by anyone viewing the profile using a checkbox that says “only show readings from this user.” This will look something like the Facebook wall concept.
Finally, a user can choose one of their notable readers to “follow,” meaning a reader will have the next sequential reading from the followed user as an option on their reading page.
And, of course, we need post editing (and comment editing). I have a typo on one of mine.
Any thoughts on this? Hit up UserVoice or the comments here to save me some time and pain!