On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Matthew Weymar wrote:
And for the record, the situation I referred to involved a very
active user
of del. Just one who doesn't keep up w/ the list, and so didn't
learn about
"for:x" until long after it was introduced. Had it been "broken
out," its
existence - and presumably usage - would've been self-explanatory.
Ok.. that is separate issue entirely vs. usability of the feature.
Tom is right to suggest that for's lack of use in del.icio.us is
because the feature is not well known, not that it is hard to use. To
say that new del.icio.us features are poorly announced is an
understatement. The counter-argument is that for:blah is not really a
stable feature yet now is it?
The problem was a del.icio.us user would like to alert someone(s)
about a specific link in their collection and the solution was to
leveraging the existing system by experimenting with a tag. I am not
entirely sure I can blame them for avoiding coding up something that
might not get a lot of use.
In my network of friends, the process always works like this:
1. Instant message with a link.
2. Damn, that's cool.
3. It shows up on del.icio.us.
As to how common this interaction is, I dunno... for:blah is nice,
but I don't see how the usage is going to be widespread enough to
warrant a serious interface enhancement to support it. I've used it
to nudge peers who I don't communicate with on a daily basis: "here,
person in similar discipline as me, i found this helpful and you
helped me out once in the past/i know you were having a similiar
problem". That's a fairly low % usage scenario.
Shawn Medero
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