New user experience: empty feed, nobody to follow

[dcposch]

i was just next to @feross when he made a fritter account

it starts out with an empty page and nobody to follow. i sent my fritter profile URL out of band, and as soon as he followed that, he got sidebar suggestions

proposal: add yourselves to Who To Follow, if no others are available

@pfrazee @taravancil

it would be kind of like MySpace Tom, except there's two of you and the user still has to click Follow first!

i think this would make new users less likely to get stuck and give up.

once they follow one of you, they'll get a bunch of sidebar suggestions. even if they don't do that, they can still click on your profile URLs and explore from there

[taravancil]

Hey DC, Paul and I actually are set as default follow suggestions, so if that didn’t show up, we’ve got a bug! Thanks for reporting.

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On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 13:17 DC ***@***.***> wrote: i was just next to @feross <https://github.com/feross> when he made a fritter account it starts out with an empty page and nobody to follow. i sent my fritter profile URL out of band, and as soon as he followed that, he got sidebar suggestions proposal: add yourselves to the Who To Follow suggestions, if no others are available @pfrazee <https://github.com/pfrazee> @taravancil <https://github.com/taravancil> it's kind of like MySpace Tom, except there's two of you and the user still has to click Follow first! i think this would make new users less likely to get stuck and give up. once they follow one of you, they'll get a bunch of sidebar suggestions. even if they don't do that, they can still click on your profile URLs and explore from there — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#20>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHO8QWdrGpzGPobhJvAbgOqsRDhFaO8Xks5tKQFYgaJpZM4RdVZd> .

[pfrazee]

It’s actually supposed to do this! I think it’s a bug that our profiles don’t show right away because we hardcoded (Tommed) them. We’ll look into this

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On Jan 13, 2018, at 1:17 PM, DC ***@***.***> wrote: i was just next to @feross when he made a fritter account it starts out with an empty page and nobody to follow. i sent my fritter profile URL out of band, and as soon as he followed that, he got sidebar suggestions proposal: add yourselves to the Who To Follow suggestions, if no others are available @pfrazee @taravancil it's kind of like MySpace Tom, except there's two of you and the user still has to click Follow first! i think this would make new users less likely to get stuck and give up. once they follow one of you, they'll get a bunch of sidebar suggestions. even if they don't do that, they can still click on your profile URLs and explore from there — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[rdela]

Is reply-to visibility related or should I open a new, separate issue? dat://fritter.hashbase.io/thread/dat://ba7fed7837d8aa0acd042407c4a1973da98cc8d89e1426ad06f65b340909fb8b/posts/0jcgrs3km.json

[pfrazee]

Separate issue!

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Ricky de Laveaga ***@***.***> wrote: Is reply-to visibility related or should I open a new, separate issue? dat://fritter.hashbase.io/thread/dat://ba7fed7837d8aa0acd042407c4a197 3da98cc8d89e1426ad06f65b340909fb8b/posts/0jcgrs3km.json — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#20 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABNhU_u9BmaztjDXmju_a0qmVkoW4VC7ks5tK8-SgaJpZM4RdVZd> .