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Subject: Re: User and contacts pages
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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:57:36 +0200
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On 11. apr. 2010, at 13.40, Richard Hirsch wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Anne Kathrine Petter=F8e
> <yojibee@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I have been doing some thinking about the users/profile pages because =
I
>> don't like the navigation we currently have.
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>=20
> Agreed
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>>=20
>> 1. Get rid of the users page in the navigation panel on the right and
>> replace it with a (my) contacts page.
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>=20
> "Users" page in its current form won't work anyway when there =
thousands of
> users in an environment.

Which is why I wanted to remove it too.

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>=20
>> We decided to keep the public timeline, so discovery can happen =
there.
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> What I'd like to do aid discovery is to add follow functionality like =
in
> twitter. Here is an example that I would like to use.
> =
http://www.9lessons.info/2009/04/exactly-twitter-like-follow-and-remove.ht=
ml

On the public timeline?

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>=20
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>> 2. Make a new layout for the contacts page with two tabs
>> (following/followers)
>> Instead of using the table sorter like we do on the users page today =
we
>> could make it similar to how twitter displays followers/following:
>> nickname
>> name
>> last tweet
>> when
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>=20
> This is similar to the current layout of  the users' page. We might be =
able
> to use the same layout with the users' being restricted to my =
followers or
> followed

It is similar, but I now it is all on one line. I would like to make it =
more twitter like and have one line per "item".

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>=20
>> 3. Make a list of all users (without displaying the last tweet) for
>> discovery purposes. I don't know where to add it in the navigation =
yet,
>> maybe next to the public timeline and settings on the top?
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> What information would you display from the users?

Just picture, username and full name.
But I am not sure we really need this though? I'd be  happy to just keep =
the public timeline and chuck out the list of all users.

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>=20
>>=20
>> 4. New profile page (instead of the current user/profilename page) =
which
>> only shows the timeline of this user and a follow button.
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>=20
> I'd like to display more user attributes as well. First name,  last =
name,
> etc.  I'm thinking about adding location and bio to the user =
attributes as
> well.

A bio would definitely be great!
But I think that is something we could focus on after the 1.1 release.

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>> What do you think?
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>> /Anne
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