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Wed 28 Aug 2013 2:30PM

Using D* as a Blog?

CG Christian Giménez Public Seen by 162

Some people have the idea to create their profiles as a Blog ( see this example ), but this may need some new features to create a comfortable environment.

For example:

  • Some people don't like that posts get "buried", mainly for their blogs, so some automatic linkage will be an interesting feature.
  • We could use a special tag (like #blog) for dividing personal posts and blog-posts.
  • The profile page could have two tabs: "General" and "Blog". Clicking at the "Blog" tab you can see all the user's #blog-tagged posts.

I think there's another related discussion, but in my opinion has a different subject:

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Florian Staudacher Fri 28 Feb 2014 12:41PM

stuff like that could be implemented as "services" (like we currently have it with FB, Twitter,...)

apart from that, posting to a Wordpress blog should be possible for quite some time now.

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[email protected] Sun 20 Apr 2014 6:43PM

nice

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Elm Sun 21 Dec 2014 8:55AM

Hi, a simple idea : add a line of tags under the line where "posts" "photos" are on the new profile page when "posts" is selected : when you click on a tag you should see all posts with this tag only (according to public/limited access).

This is a "tag cloud" I guess but this list of tags could be simplified by being just the list of the first tag used in the messages. This would be the easiest to implement I guess.

The idea is to go on a person pages and click say "myfamillynews" tags to have news about his familly (if I have access to) , or "politics" to see what he shared about politics.

This could be used not only as a blog but as a general page with different infos accessible to different sets of people according to aspect lists.

I do not know coding in ruby but Would like to learn just to implement that !

JS

Juan Santiago Sun 21 Dec 2014 7:03PM

It occurred to me a great idea. Why not use a blog as a blog? It is a joke.

I think it's a good idea to create some tools that facilitate use Diaspora as a blog, but I'm not sure that people correctly well and in the end can only bring confusion. I like to keep diaspora as a clear and easy to use system.

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Elm Mon 22 Dec 2014 7:45AM

I believe this would not bring any confusion since the tag line would be only visible on profile page of a person. The flux view would not be changed. Profile page would not be useable as a real blog, but more like an access to posts of a person ordered by tags.

JS

Juan Santiago Mon 22 Dec 2014 4:32PM

::access to posts of a person ordered by tags.:: i,m agree this

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ast Thu 16 Apr 2015 10:40AM

bump on this feature, it's a good idea!

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Tirifto Thu 16 Apr 2015 1:17PM

Blog support might be nice, but isn't it going to complicate things? diaspora* is a social network, and while it's nature might be nice for blogging, some things might need to get implemented to support quality blogging.

My concern is if it won't clutter diaspora* and 'derail' it from it's main aim: to be a decentralized* social network. If no blog support is added, it will stay like that. If some basic support is implemented, we might have usable-for-blogging-but-not-really experience. If the feature is fully supported, isn't it going to encumber diaspora* with useless additions for most people?

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Elm Thu 16 Apr 2015 3:39PM

I understand your point, but the simplified cloud tags (with say different font size according to usages) in the profile page is not that much of an addition. And this would just provide a very basic blogging experience. It is just a way to have all tagged related post of one personn in a separate stream. Very usefull for anybody in fact : say I want to erase all my #petition posts, I would just have them in a clic. And if some people choose to use their profile page for basic blogging with public posts I guess this will help Diaspora to be known by non users. (I chose to do that instead of using a classic blog : to get people to know Diaspora !

Public posts visible for non users already cross the bridge to blog posts compared to Diaspora being just a social network.

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Birch** Fri 26 Jun 2015 7:36AM

Yes, a basic blogging experience would be great. Or even 'notes' - FB had 'notes' (do they still? No one bothers with them) I think it could be a great idea for those longer posts that people want to make. As I mentioned elsewhere, a new-ish site called minds.com is starting to be talked about between many friends on FB. Two things it has implemented - tho not very well- is groups and blog. It is really time for Diaspora to shine!