This was the poll thread on activity feed: What we want in an activity feed
48 people voted
- 70% Friend beers ratings
- 56% Friend place ratings
- 54% Newly added beers by favourite brewers
- 47% Friend beer rating milestones
- 39% New beer nearby rated very highly
- 37% Beers newly available nearby in favourite styles
- 29% Beers newly available nearby by favourite brewers
- 27% Favorite nearby places updated their availabilities
- 20% Friend Place rating milestones
- 16% Highly rated beer in favourite style this month
- 12% Nearby Places that I haven’t followed
- 12% Nearby breweries I haven’t followed
- 10% Breweries highly rated by me that I haven’t followed
- 6% Prompt to follow top favorited breweries among friends
- 4% Prompt to friend a most-upvoted reviewer of a particular style
- 4% Styles I may want to Favourite
#1 and #2 have always been there. #4 had to be reinstated after complaints, #11 may have be there, if “following a place” means anything
I think that none of the other 12 items in the poll have been implemented.
So we shouldn’t even mention that poll…
In the thread people mentioned a few more features:
_ Customization
_ Forum integration
_ Photos
_ What I’m drinking feature
None has been implemented
In the past people asked to roll up beers added by a friend, multiple times: not implemented.
I can’t see in the list where voters chose to have:
- constant reminder to follow more breweries
- constant reminder to rate places I haven’t rated
- witty comments on the score
- 2 weeks roll-up counter for ratings
- top performing breweries 5000km away from me
- and a bunch of other things that were rolled out and then reversed after tons of complaints
And then the visualization choices that hurt usability:
- huge white spaces (ok, you said that research suggests to have empty spaces)
- 4-5 lines of text per item; MJ and I showed you how you can more efficiently write the same in 2 lines
- for new beers added, show the brewery logo rather than the friend avatar, this shows ignorance of how we use the site
- “more items” (or “next page”) not working
And at least a half dozen major bugs that would have been found with just some beta testing.
I’m not saying I support everything that was requested or I’m against everything that was not requested, but I think that there was a community poll and the developer went 180 degrees.
It’s almost as if we are planning to tight the community together by continuously and consciously giving them something to complain about.
