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July 31, 2003 - 5:57am — bmann

I'm still playing with Tribe.net. So far, definitely the most fun. And I actually see it being useful, because it adds so much, but in a structured way. But a structured way that is very loose at the same time.



I sent in one piece of feedback, and I've just finished typing up another. This is via email, but since this is a commercial company, I'm also going to post the feedback here.



Feedback #1: Reject button should lead to message form



Current functionality: When pressing reject on a "friend request", the person is immediately rejected!



Desired functionality: Pressing reject should lead to an (optional) screen that allows for feedback to be sent to the person along with the rejection notice (use send message procedure, but mark as "rejection feedback")



Also, perhaps it should be called "decline" instead of "reject"? The term "reject" and "friends" seems rather harsh...



Feedback #2: Notification for discussion board replies + photo captions



Absolutely need to have notification of replies to a discussion -- if I don't remember to go back and visit every single Tribe where I posted to a discussion forum, I'll never know that someone responded to me...



Two ways of accomplishing this, potentially make both optional:

  • have a checkmark when you post that says "Notify me by email when someone responds"
  • have an option to automatically display discussions that you are a part of on your home page

Actually, with the second option, it might be better to just expand it to a bookmark/subscribe to this discussion feature. Even if I "lurk" and don't participate, I might still want to follow the discussion. You could then add notification options that are configurable on a per-discussion/Tribe basis -- notify by email, display on home page, display last X posts, etc.


Hmmm...I just uploaded a second picture to the "Ottawa" tribe. Some suggested changes/fixes:

  • need to be able to edit the caption afterwards
  • if there is no "next" picture, don't just remove the link from the next text, don't show next at all
  • each picture should have a discussion/comments attached to it
  • when looking at photos, there is no obvious way to get back to the TribeCard (I know that "back" in the upper right is linked, but there are three "back" on that page, each of which link to different places!)
  • feature: wouldn't it be cool if you could set the main photo to "random"?

Continuing the thought on notification, the photos should be treated like another discussion forum -- you could get notified of new pictures and/or new comments on a picture (a picture is a new topic, comments are replies/posts).

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August 18, 2003 - 6:41pm — bmann

Latest feedback

(This also get sent as an email to Tribe.net feedback)

I have never been able to complete the "Upload file to Tribe" function -- it always bails after hitting submit

Oh, and you should also have a button next to any item (but especially next to discussions) that acts as a "Forward to friend" button. Actually, you might want to have two options.
1 - Forward to friend as a message
2 - Forward as a listing

And it turns out that if I hit "edit" on a listing I've created, I get an error...

Special Bonus Feedback:

When viewing a person card, it would be great to have a section called "Recent postings". This would show all postings that the person has made to all discussion topics. For moderated tribes, you only get to see the posting if you are a member of that moderated tribe.

An expanded version of this might be a feature that accomplishes "Show me the last things that all my friends within X degrees have said".

P.S. Where is the new tight version?

July 31, 2003 - 8:31am — Anonymous

Why would I go tor Tribenet as compared to

... Linkedin?

July 31, 2003 - 2:46pm — bmann

LinkedIn vs. Tribe.net

Basically, LinkedIn is *very* static. You go there, you sign up, a bunch of other people sign up, and...that's it. The only other thing to do there is searches -- so, if you need to hire someone or need some expertise, etc. And of course, get contacted as a result of those searches.

Tribe.net is much more social. There are discussion forums, things called "listings" which are everything from job postings to things for sale to...whatever.

As well as linking between friends, there is the concept of "tribes", which are organized around a particular topic. This might be regional (check out the Ottawa tribe) or around a particular interest (e.g. Mac OS X).

Also, lots of pictures. I spent some time and put up a bunch of pictures for my "person card" (you have to be signed in to see people, as far as I can tell -- correct me if I'm wrong) plus a couple for the Ottawa tribe.

So, in summary, Tribe.net seems like a more useful and definitely more fun place to be, without the whole personal ads/hotornot overlay. But, you can still look at the beautiful peoples' pictures and see if you'd like them :p