We just launched our Recommend feature today!
It's really a simple feature: if you like a post, just click the Recommend link. Your subs and friends will see a link to that post in their
Inbox! It's a great way to share great content... and pretty convenient if you're lazy like me
.
It's only been a few hours since we launched Recommend, but already we've gotten hundreds of recommendations in the system! We've been learning a lot from how people are using it:
- It can be a bit overwhelming to get tons of recommendations all at once
- It can be a bit annoying if lots of people recommend the same post. So we may find ways to group those together (e.g. "This post has been recommended by three subs").
- Some people have mentioned it'd be nice to have a recommendations
tab/filter on your Universal Inbox, so you can view only
recommendations if you want.
We'll get to work on those! In the meantime, I'm surprised at how many great posts I have come across that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. I've already subbed to a bunch of new sites tonight, and am looking forward to finding may more. Many thanks to
Patrick,
Ayca, and
Justin for all their hard work!
John
Comments (124)
I see it happening a lot already! Fun :) Thanks, guys!
I agree, those three things you addressed there are an issue with the recommended feature, but other than that, I love it!
Yeah my subscribers have good taste on who they reccomend hehe :)
That is so awesome! I can't wait to start using the Recommend feature!
I like this new setting, I'll get to using it!
-Heidi
interesting idea
Very cool feature! I haven't used it yet, but I know I will!
Xo
Hmm.
Yeah.
THE RECOMMEND FEATURE HAS RUINED MY LIFE! (and enhanced my xanga experience.)
How cool, thanks a lot you guys!
I can see where recommendations could overwhelm my inbox. A filter would be great.
Great feature.
Is there a way to display the posts you recommend on your blog for others to see yet? Will there be?
Or is there some way that you can see all the posts you've recommended so far? That would be useful for dredging up an old post that you liked and might want to read again.
heyy, the recommend thing is cool and all, but seriously, i don't mean to be mean AT ALL, but the "new xanga" is just awful. pleaseee, the idea of a new xanga is great but maybe fix it up..a lot.
I have an unrelated question...is there any way to opt out of the reply feature? Since it's been introduced, people simply reply to my comment on their own sites instead of coming to visit my site. It's quite annoying.
@nephyo - We're definitely looking into adding a Recommendation module
. Keep us posted if you have any other Recommending feature requests!
This is very cool and the new ideas all make sense. Great job!
Also, whenever I try to take one of those surveys for credits, it says there aren't any available for my country. I know lots of others in the U.S. with me that take them all the time! What gives?
w00t, go Xanga team!!!
Very cool!
Thanks for all the hard work!
@goddessladyj - I'm agreeing with this person here.
I'm already recommended, so....FEATURE ME FEATURE ME FEATURE ME FEATURE ME.
Ahem. What I meant to say was...
FEATURE ME.
Why? Because I have the BEST BLOG ON XANGA and you KNOW IT.
Amen.
M.P.
@Mystic_Xingjing @goddessladyj - It's interesting - I thought we'd get more requests for this after we launched Replies, but we've only gotten 3 requests for this ever (and you guys are two of them). But it's definitely something we'll consider if it's something that there's a groundswell of requests for it!
You can hide replies on your own site if you want, using CSS...
OhI like the idea of a ta on the universal to view them in a seperate place... GOOD IDEA!
do we get notified if a blog of ours gets rec'd?