admin said in #3098 3w ago:
This week in the sofie mines, we've got pronounceable non-sequential anon ids (anon_haho, anon_ryfi, anon_lifo, etc), and custom nym bios and even profile pictures for nyms with proper usernames. Check it out.
The idea with pronounceable nyms is to make being an anon and interacting with anons slightly more ergonomic and fun. IMO it's much superior to the sequential hex nonsense we were using before. The names have character even if they're a bit silly. At the very least it was a good hello world for intern-kun's first project. I hope you don't mind occasionally pronouncing w as a vowel.
Custom nym bios are a way for namefags to feel more at home as well. The idea is that your personal page should be a nice presentable log of your posts under that nym along with a little header that explains who you are and what you're about. It's like your twitter page: something you could link to people who want to know your deal, a place to post your thoughts, somewhere for people to stumble across and explore. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
There's a few other minor changes as well. Links now go in the post body wherever you like and are automatically found and dug out of the post body for display on the front page. Front page posts now show their tags. The front page is starting to feel ever so slightly cluttered between images, tags, replies, votes, etc etc, so let us know if you have any thoughts on how to clean it up.
The weekly newsletter is on its way but not quite ready. We've got a prototype working on the back end and sending out to the dev team. It's the five best threads every week, simple as. It's still a bit janky and needs design attention and robustness testing before we start spamming you all, but it's going to be good.
While we get the newsletter dialed in and ready for you, we're planning the completion of the tag system. Right now we have a half-baked list of fixed tags that I cooked up in an afternoon. What we really want is a dynamically improving set of well-used tags that forms both a high quality index of our discussions, a declaration of what we're interested in, and a set of sub-community spaces with their own cultures. We're going to do this with a high degree of automation: the tag set is an optimization problem balancing a number of concerns both visible and invisible. It will be ultimately under our manual control as a community, but it will also magically just work in ways a naive manual system would not. That's the theory at least.
It's starting to come together I think.
The idea with pronounceable nyms is to make being an anon and interacting with anons slightly more ergonomic and fun. IMO it's much superior to the sequential hex nonsense we were using before. The names have character even if they're a bit silly. At the very least it was a good hello world for intern-kun's first project. I hope you don't mind occasionally pronouncing w as a vowel.
Custom nym bios are a way for namefags to feel more at home as well. The idea is that your personal page should be a nice presentable log of your posts under that nym along with a little header that explains who you are and what you're about. It's like your twitter page: something you could link to people who want to know your deal, a place to post your thoughts, somewhere for people to stumble across and explore. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
There's a few other minor changes as well. Links now go in the post body wherever you like and are automatically found and dug out of the post body for display on the front page. Front page posts now show their tags. The front page is starting to feel ever so slightly cluttered between images, tags, replies, votes, etc etc, so let us know if you have any thoughts on how to clean it up.
The weekly newsletter is on its way but not quite ready. We've got a prototype working on the back end and sending out to the dev team. It's the five best threads every week, simple as. It's still a bit janky and needs design attention and robustness testing before we start spamming you all, but it's going to be good.
While we get the newsletter dialed in and ready for you, we're planning the completion of the tag system. Right now we have a half-baked list of fixed tags that I cooked up in an afternoon. What we really want is a dynamically improving set of well-used tags that forms both a high quality index of our discussions, a declaration of what we're interested in, and a set of sub-community spaces with their own cultures. We're going to do this with a high degree of automation: the tag set is an optimization problem balancing a number of concerns both visible and invisible. It will be ultimately under our manual control as a community, but it will also magically just work in ways a naive manual system would not. That's the theory at least.
It's starting to come together I think.
referenced by: >>3187
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