J, Actually I subscribe to both specific users and to specific tags. The downside to subscribing to specific tags is that I'm vulnerable to spam when people like: http://del.icio.us/dngrand/ decide to tag their 4 bookmarks with hundreds of tags.
Duplicate collapsing would be very useful especially if I can then sort my inbox according to popularity against time -- this lets me find out what's the most popular link amongst the people I'm subscribed to today/this week/etc. On 10/24/05, joshua schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This happens with me. I used to subscribe to many interesting tags, > > but duplicates reduces the utility so much that I hardly bother > > reading the subscriptions. How much of a performance impact would > > collapsing duplicates be? (and I'm not sure how that would work with > > an rss subscription. remove duplicates between viewings? what if > > someone didn't view the inbox for months?) > > practically no performance impact, actually. > > but popular-within-my-inbox seems like a useful feature. i'm undecided. > > > > > Oh, and if you keep the inbox, could you put number unread by each > > tag? I generally read subscriptions via bloglines anyway. it has that > > feature. > > how do we tell if an item is "read" -- remember lots of stuff is read > via an RSS reader; it's hard to tell when something has been fetched > by human agency or not > > currently, we do not do any click-tracking; there are ui pros and > privacy cons there (although I suppose everyone else does it) > > joshua > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.del.icio.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
