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via Zengestrom by Jyri on 2/22/10
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My little Google Buzz voting experiment broke 20,000 votes this weekend (story on ReadWriteWeb). As of now 1,390 people have submitted 487 ideas and cast 21,218 votes (some ideas are duplicates, sadly there is no way to merge them). Thanks to everyone who has participated!
Below is a short summary of the feedback. It's not meant to be objective and you should feel free to create your own breakdown (anybody out there specializing in survey analysis?) I tried to take into account the most actively voted topics while also including less popular fixes that I consider important.
I. Clean the stream
- Hide comments by default (use notifications & hints—see Jaiku/Friendfeed)
- Don't re-order the stream when new comments are added to posts
- Allow clicking posts to expand/collapse threads inline
- Remove dupes
- Allow unsubscribing from specific sources
II. Stop ruining my Inbox
- Don't put notifications about new comments in my Inbox unless the comment is directly addressed to me or in a thread that I explicitly subscribed to
- Make Mute a clearly visible button
- Better filtering: e.g. allow sorting search results by # of likes & comments
- Don't show the same faces more than once in New Followers
- Stop showing unread count in sidebar (this is not email)
III. Better public conversation
- Block trolls straight from comments
- Add autosuggest popup to @-replies in non-Gmail UIs (mobile & Profile)
- Include previous commenters in the @-reply suggestions
- Enable Re-buzzing
- Make it possible to like & link to comments
IV. Leverage Gmail & Mobile features that rock
- Add starring of posts and comments
- Add Nearby tab to desktop (currently mobile only)
- Allow location tagging of desktop posts (currently mobile only)
I've excluded the API-related feedback (including third party feeds) from this summary since I wanted to focus on improvements to the current feature set and the API hasn't been launched yet. The API will have a huge impact on the Buzz ecosystem because it'll allow content to flow in and out of Buzz and third parties to build alternative UIs. Developers should join the Buzz API discussion group.
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