This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Selendrile on Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:51 pm

Notifications when people have new pictures...

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Tom on Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:49 am

Selendrile wrote: Notifications when people have new pictures...

That is in the works and believe it or not, we're going to start adding some functionality and fixing some bugs very soon after over a year of being lazy and doing nothing.

Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Ashe on Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:35 pm

3/4 wrote: Not sure if this has been suggested or not, is there a way for a profile to be deleted or at least be hidden when it has been inactive for a long period of time. Just saying this, because I'm tired of seeing a bunch of inactive profiles on this site.

I agree.

PS- How many active profiles do we actually have? Like say, how many profiles have logged on int he past 3 weeks?

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Ashe on Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:04 pm

Two hundred is about what I figured. Out of over 4000, that's unfortunate. I like the remove from lists option. I think that would be quite helpful.

And whatcha got cookin for us?

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Cryophile on Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:14 pm

As I said I am more than willing to be a regular reviewer as well as write technical articles (or just random articles)

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by 0 ! on Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:24 am

Tom wrote: I've been talking about it forever but if all goes well, there will be two new sections being added: Articles and Reviews.

Is this somehow distinct from the forum?

Also, while you're talking about major changes, would you be considering content that's fundamentally different either intrinsically or in its organization?

I don't pretend to have thoroughly explored or used the site, but from my perspective, it seems to be:

*A URL with some level of exposure and association with geekiness, beyond the domain name. Obviously, there's a lot of factors that go into this.

*A profile system which enables a limited amount of 'hit or miss' search and matching criteria. Keyword search... for the lucky people.

*A private message/winking system, which for some reason must delete sent messages?

*Then there's the 'favorited by' feature, which doesn't make a lot of sense, as it doesn't ask the favorite's permission, and so they could be favorited by spammers or others with no association.

*Blurbs... with notifications and whatnot.

*Then a forum, with the now standard forum features, like posting history, user rankings, etc.
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So... register, fill out profile, search for matches, chat them up, wait to be notified of new matches.

The only thing that really changes is the forum. I don't know about the other 200 users, but to me at least, and probably others active on the board, FYG isn't enabling us to do anything we couldn't with any other forum.

I think things would be more interesting if users could create quizzes, or add user-created fields to their profiles, which would then be search able.
The forums could use some enhancements, but that's off topic, unless FYG is in the business of forum tech.

Depending on how they're presented/exposed, and how users are notified of them, articles and reviews could be interesting, but it offers much of the same the forum did: the ability to write/speak.

If FYG is to standout from a handful of similar sites competing for exactly the same niche, it needs to invent new kinds of content that will inspire the otherwise bored/lonely/shy user to create something. Something that may have a better chance at involving them with others than would writing a profile, speaking in front of a large group, or *shudders* cold messaging/blurbing.

I'd ask though, what the point of FYG -- or any other social networking site -- is now, in this age of Facebook dominance? Facebook now groups people onto pages based on interests they've listed. It's not as hard as it used to be to find even stealth geeks through obscure titles and whatnot.

What is FYG's mission statement? How does FYG justify its existence? Where does FYG fit among the multitude of other social software, services, and directories?

Spoiler: I'd been looking for 'geeky' social sites back in 2007 before facebook,myspace, or friendster seemed useful for searching by interest. My objective was to find, and be found by, others, regardless of location. I'd pile my profiles chock-full of all keywords I could think of, and their variations. (To this day, that's yielded little, unless facebook's interest pages count. Ironically, I meet more people through Omegle 'surveys'.)

After passing it over for reasons I can't remember, I finally realized that FYG had an active forum, unlike similar sites. So... because I was wondering why I didn't get much of a response to my previous profiles, I decided to see how a sample of the people behind the thousands of profiles I'd read reacted to me on a post-by-post basis.

There came a time when I gave up hope that I'd find common interests, but even after that, I remained on the board because I was curious about the group itself, what interested it and why, and why anyone stuck with it (or why others didn't).

So I come to FYG for the forum and its regulars. If I were to start again from where I was 3 years ago, I'd probably not be drawn in, even if I did look past Facebook to find this forum and its faint pulse.

Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Ashe on Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:10 am

0 ! just gave me an idea regarding user content. It's a little bit similar to okcupid, in that it's a quiz but it's a personalized quiz for each profile. We could make our own "Are you my geek/Are you a match?" quiz, anywhere from 5 to 100 questions (I seriously doubt anyone's gonna go that far, except 0 !, but it's nice to have the option). People visiting your profile who are interested in you can take it and when they finish, it gives them a score and either says "would you like to message them now?" with a PM link or sends the person a message saying "so and so matched such and such percent with you."

Kinda rough, I guess but it's a solid idea, I think.

Y'all niggas is gay.

Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Ashe on Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:09 pm

Well that is one enthusiastic "yay".

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by Ashe on Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:50 pm

Damn it, the gratification my ego is feeling just gave ME a hard on...

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Re: This thread is about your deepest, most intimate desires...

by 0 ! on Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:59 am

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/07/07/flowchart-to-my-heart/

Yeah, no, I went well beyond 100 questions. Over a couple days I actually exhausted every question in their database. It won't simply layout your top matches, and they got rid of WTF reports that detailed exactly what questions contributed to high match scores.

With all the clout that 'question importance' had, they should've allowed users to save back-up 'importance profiles'.

Then there were a zillions of user created quizzes, I don't think you could search people by the results those returned.

The most popular explicitly geek site is horrendous in features, but for some reason, there's people there who've written very fine profiles. Finding them is nearly impossible though, unless you try reading all of them. Which is ironic, because finding the site itself is so easy.
They do have a simple personality compatibility quiz, and a blogging system. Why anyone pays for that is beyond me.

Tom wrote: I'd love to add new stuff to this site all the time (I have a list of enhancements I've come up with and culled from this thread three pages long) but unfortunately it's just me and I have an RL job that occupies most of my free time and working on this site for free is not exactly attractive to programmers so I pretty much have to go at it alone.
MattyGroch wrote:
Ashe wrote: We could make our own "Are you my geek/Are you a match?" quiz
I'd like to add that this is such an awesome idea that I would be willing to help make this possible.

As a forum regular, I can say I have a quite a bit of free time. The opportunity to contribute more than posts to this site could actually be attractive.

I guess, with free hosting accounts that support PHP, SQL and whatnot, anyone could test their implementation of your proposed 'challenges' and then submit them to you for approval and integration?

There's definitely some push for ideas, and if forum regulars actually implemented some of them, I think there could be some genuine excitement around here. More people would probably be motivated learn about it, and suggest more ideas, etc.

Then, there's nothing stopping anybody from implementing these things right now.

Looking forward to the new features, though, it'd really be awesome if one of the regulars would take that first step by developing a feature.