DISQUS

godavemon · 1 year ago

whoops, Zack already covered everything I said :).

Zack · 1 year ago

Thanks for trying out Socialbrowse! I'm one of the co-founders, so hopefully I can provide some insight into our thought processes.

Regarding the categories, we're refining them based on user feedback, so soon you'll have a category that fits SEO. The reason we chose categories rather than tags is because entering tags is slow, and we want to provide the quickest way to share links. Additionally, we allow users to filter which links they receive based on which categories they like (or dislike). This would be difficult with tags. But getting the list of categories right is difficult as well ;-)

And the reason for the invitation system? We want to make sure we can scale so we don't run into Twitter-like outages. We have had zero downtime so far, which we're proud of, and I'm sure our users appreciate. We'll be opening the system up publicly soon, so if you're on the waiting list, you won't be much longer!

Thanks again for trying it out - don't hesitate to send us more feedback. Most of our new features result from what our users have been requesting.

chestyle · 1 year ago

Thanks for explaining the reason of invitations. Content filtering by categories in the soicalbrowse bar and popups is a thing that would really make me happy, kind of like on reddit - tick the categories that you are interested in and receive updates only on these topics. I guess it will be incredibly useful for users when they have lots of people they follow. Keep up the good job, guys, thanks for a good service.
more invitations here - http://www.socialbrowse.com/techcrunch/
And it would be pretty nice if links from the socialbrowse bar could be opened in a new tab.

Zack · 1 year ago

We currently support content filtering. Click on "feed" in your profile and you'll be allowed to select which categories you want to receive on the right.

We've had a lot of requests to open links in new tabs and we're working on it. Unfortunately it's not trivial to do so from a sidebar (the browser doesn't treat these as normal links), but the feature is coming!

Natalie · 1 year ago

Work-around for the socialbar opening links in new tabs: Ctrl+Click or Command+Click (PC/Mac)

chestyle · 1 year ago

Wow, I actually feel embarrassed. . Thanks for enlightening me. Now I'm satisfied :)
Convincing my friends to use social browse won't be hard, but making them switch to firefox will be a challenge :D Conservative fools...

chestyle · 1 year ago

Rock on, guys! :D Tweak the categories, add the cross-browser support (guess IE will be quite a problem) and socialbrowse will be an outstanding Frankenstein ^^