My home page / feed has stuff in it from realms I'm not following

[neilb]

I'm getting things in my "personal feed" (ie what I see when I first go to Questhub) that are from the new realms. I'm not following those realms, so I didn't expect to see them in my feed.

For example, your creating of the stencil "solve first 10 problems on project Euler", and your starting of a new quest to run at least 5km ...

Ah, is this because I'm following you?

In which case, this is a different bug: only include things for people I'm following in realms that I'm following :-)

[berekuk]

Ah, is this because I'm following you?

Yes.

In which case, this is a different bug: only include things for people I'm following in realms that I'm following :-)

That doesn't make much sense. If you follow a realm, you already see all things in this realm.
Following people is for following them everywhere. (And, I admit, for increasing the amount of notification emails QH sends to passive users ;) )

Two thoughts:

1. I have an idea of adding two tabs to news feed: "Realms I follow" and "People I follow", what do you think?
2. Maybe I could add the ability to follow people at specific realms. I haven't done it yet because UI to control these settings would be too complicated.

PS: It all is linked to the tough and important question about whether QH is going to be more like Reddit (community-centered) or like Facebook (people-centered).

[neilb]

That doesn't make much sense

Ok, I'll give you that one. Hmm, I'll have a think about this — I think this needs to be handled carefully, otherwise realms won't scale nicely with # users.

I think the Reddit vs Facebook comes back to the central vision of QH (I know you know that, just saying).

[berekuk]

I think the Reddit vs Facebook comes back to the central vision of QH (I know you know that, just saying).

Yes. But I'd appreciate any external opinion on that.

I realized just yesterday that this is more serious question than I thought. I could probably go on in both directions technically for some time, but people are getting confused about which parts of the service are their personal space, and which require them playing by community rules.