RE: Steemit Home Page Redesign Part IV - By George I think we've got it!
When logged in, additional personalization happens.
Absolutely, it's not without reason that all other social media and content website/service "learns" what you want and then gives you a personalized feed.
However, I think we should aim for a final product that is not as AI driven as what all the other websites are bringing in, but that leaves more control in the hands of the users and not in the hands of engineers at Facebook or Google. It's a decentralized system after all and alleviating people from this now more irritating "service" is the way to go imo.
What I would then like to see as a personalized feed is a tab that shows "what are my friends upvoting and commenting on". Basically giving you the power to subscribe to curators and people you trust finds great content you would also want to see, and then presents a feed where the priority is based on vested votes from your followers and/or "subscribers".
To your first comment: so these personalized feeds are human centered. The mechanic is manually driven by the user. The user selects followers they want to follow. The user selects tags on the right for genre interest. Both of these inputs then populate tabs at the top that are buckets for what you’ve put in there. If you never favorite a follower or a tag those tabs are empty. Does that help?
Second comment: we are agreed and aligned. I think the only AI content we’d ever allow in my opinion is keyword phishing or smart content phishing so the tabs like trending, hot, everything steem might have a toggle which is on/off see all vs smart (computer AI content it thinks i like based on word search, follower, tags,)
Third comment: this sounds interesting. A new feature. I might need more direction to understand but here’s my thought. Perhaps this is a sorting mechanic at the content level of each of these tabs possibly. It doesn’t strike me right away as a tab but more of a sort. For example if i look at my favorites content which is my followers favorited i could select a toggle or sort that allows that content feed to sort by popularity vote or popularity comment. Would that help?
I think what many users are asking for are sorting mechanics once we’ve selected a content group. Is that the request?
I agree there may need to be another level of control to sort the tabbed content. These are sort controls at the content feed level. I would think sorting big feeds of categories most definitely would allow more diverse content to be surfaced and found based on user choices. This increases value! Thoughts?