by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
An interesting element of the UX of this proposed Twitter killer is it would, like Facebook or Twitter, have a “Feed” feature that would cut through all the Groups and Threads. But how to do it? How to convey to the reader that if they click on something they can go straight to a new Post in a Thread they might be interested in?
I think the way to do it is something like this: Whenever you finish a Post, you would be prompted to drag down a highlighting feature that you could use to create an Excerpt. That Excerpt, would, in turn, be featured in the Feed under the subject of the Thread.
It’s the best of both worlds.
I suppose you might say it’s a tick bit more complicated that the average Twitter or Facebook user might be used to, but I think it’s intuitive enough that they would begin to use it without even thinking about it. Or, at least most users would.
The beauty of this feature is “flattens” the service down to something much like Twitter. Groups and Threads would still exist, of course, but they would be far more manageable than they ever were with the old Usenet 25 odd years ago. Too bad no one listens to me, huh.
