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  • i208khonsu
    +3

    My ideal Snapzu is one that just continues to grow and fine tune the experience. for the past 18-24 months reddit seems to be complacent to how their website functions and insists that they have an enforcement problem and an image problem. The fact of the mater is both users and volunteer moderators of the Internet's largest discussion board lack the basic tools that are available on a platform like vBulletin. Instead they rely on third party tools like automod (again produced by kind hearted volunteers) to give their website the basic tools needed to function. Out of all the reddit alternatives out there I see Snapzu is best suited to creating a robust and refined approach to discussion boards.

    One gripe I'll note right now is [Shift]+[Enter] inserts two return characters instead of one. This is annoying because I'm use to using in Facebook and Skype to insert a new line as well as in Word to ignore double spacing. Please just ignore me using [Shift]+[Enter] or correct it's use to be more consistent with other popular applications.

    Another thing I've recently noticed is that viewing a page with only snaps and text posts of tribes that you've joined (the reddit/voat experience) is a bit harder than what I prefer. Personally I subscribe to tribes to receive content that I want just as much as to avoid content and communities that I don't want to be engaged in. Forcing me to see "default tribes" when I first sign on is undesirable. I just looked for an option in preferences, but could find anything. It is pretty easy just to switch to your own tribes in the right sidebar, but honestly it took a couple weeks before I noticed this.

    Somewhat related, I appreciate how you can post a snap to multiple tribes and have all tribes engaged in the same discussion. It's great especially with how young and small Snapzu still is. However I ran into an issue with my first snap that checked /t/technology to see if it was already posted before I submitted, but Snapzu also felt t...

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    • Splitfish
      +5

      This is no auto follow on reply and never has been as far as I remember. What do you mean by that?

      • i208khonsu
        +3

        That's weird. I cleared out about a dozen a few days ago. Don't remember clicking follow on anyone (maybe I just forgot), but I did notice they were all people that I had chatted with before. Is there some kind of default follow list?

        • Splitfish
          +5

          New accounts auto-join 15 relevant tribes (based on what they selected during signup), and follow the top member of each tribe (over a time span I'm unsure of). This caters relevant content right off the bat and introduces the users to those functions. It's also a good incentive to stay active, neeed more followers!

          • drunkenninja
            +4

            I will also add that the top people that are being followed are based on how active they are on snapzu at the time. This functionality makes sure that those members you do auto follow are active and contributing part of the platform.

          • i208khonsu
            +2

            Ooooh, this makes a bit of sense. Personally I un-followed all of them as I wasn't interested in all the replies they were making; seemed a little creepy too. It's a bit better now that Gladsdotter pointed out the gearbox on the homepage so I could just filter that by default. Personally the signal to noise ratio on everyone's comments really downs out seeing any Snaps on the Homepage with those dozen or so users I was automatically following.

            • Splitfish
              +3

              Yeah everyone's got different preferences. Just need to tune them for your liking.

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            • drunkenninja
              +4
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              Yep, the customizability of the feed is practically endless.

    • AdelleChattre
      +3

      While I agree that Reddit, the company and the code base, are fossilizing, to be fair they have brought Automoderator in-house recently, which is why it’s gotten so buggy. It was a skanky hack to begin with, and that’s not going to change. It is official rubbish, now though, so they’ve got that going for them. Wouldn’t be surprised if they absorbed Moderator Toolbox as well, if they haven’t already.

      Quitting default tribes is easy enough, just like unsubscribing from the default subreddits. Profile picture in the upper right, Tribe Memberships, spin through the Quit buttons, done.

      Duplicate detection could stand some attention. Exactly matching main links and snap titles could be caught programmatically, eliminating the often-repeated after-publishing chore of checking of related snaps listed at the bottom of the snap for dupes. There’s something Snapfu'd up about exact URL match reposts, and I don’t think it’s just a race condition with multiple draft snaps.

      Hadn’t noticed the auto-follow on replies. Seems like a sharp-eyed catch, that.

      • i208khonsu
        +3

        Sorry, wasn't referencing quitting tribes, I was saying that the Snapzu front page defaults to "All Tribes" instead of "My Tribes" and couldn't find a way to change that default option. However now that @Gladsdotter pointed out the gearbox on your homepage I can configure that to exactly the filters I want by default there instead of the front page.

        Also @Splitfish pointed out that there is no auto-follow on replies. Not sure how I was following so many people; don't remember following anyone, probably just forgot.