I've been mulling over a "bump" feature to re-feature old posts. @theoutlander
was wondering the same thing recently.
The question is, is it a "bump" feature that you can use on your own posts or more of a "retweet-esque" feature that you can use but so can others. To spread stuff to others and also give old stuff new life if it's still relevant.
It's pronounced Diane. I do data architecture, operations, and backend development. In my spare time I maintain Massive.js, a data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL.
The fact that there's a search bar at the top of every page makes me wonder just how much more is necessary. If someone wants to find posts on any particular topic, the tools are already there.
Yeah, we'll probably get those back in. We kind of quietly lost them without giving it as much thought when we made some other adjustments in the feed.
My personal paralysis on this is the concern of needing to be able to mark posts as out of date in some way.
If users had the ability to bump posts themselves, then at least they could update them and/or select stuff that's still timely.
To shave this yak further, I'd like to have more first class tools in general in terms of updating/versioning posts.
Another quick thought -- the maybe 100 infinity posts are probably pretty timeless, could just randomly throw some of those on the home page for people?
I've been mulling over a "bump" feature to re-feature old posts. @theoutlander was wondering the same thing recently.
The question is, is it a "bump" feature that you can use on your own posts or more of a "retweet-esque" feature that you can use but so can others. To spread stuff to others and also give old stuff new life if it's still relevant.
The fact that there's a search bar at the top of every page makes me wonder just how much more is necessary. If someone wants to find posts on any particular topic, the tools are already there.
I liked the old “classic DEV” pots that would show up in your home feed! (I think that is what they were called)
Yeah, we'll probably get those back in. We kind of quietly lost them without giving it as much thought when we made some other adjustments in the feed.
My personal paralysis on this is the concern of needing to be able to mark posts as out of date in some way.
If users had the ability to bump posts themselves, then at least they could update them and/or select stuff that's still timely.
To shave this yak further, I'd like to have more first class tools in general in terms of updating/versioning posts.
oh that would be really cool!
Another quick thought -- the maybe 100 infinity posts are probably pretty timeless, could just randomly throw some of those on the home page for people?
Yeah, I actually think the concerns I mentioned above can be solved fairly simply.
This mostly fell to the wayside due to other priorities or fires lately.