State of the Website: SaidIt.net 5/16/2018 - New updates

submitted by magnora7 from self.SaidIt

/u/d3rr and myself are excited to announce several new updates for SaidIt.

SaidIt now has a 'home' page, which is the new front page. If you want the old saidit.net front page, go to https://saidit.net/s/all (or click 'ALL' in the top left) and you'll see exactly what used to be at https://saidit.net

The new 'home' page is /s/all minus any vendor-based subs, including /s/greymarket and /s/ads. We did this to help condense posts about interesting news and events, as is the intent of the site, rather than the front page be primarily a vendor advertising board. You can see now there is a new 'HOME' navigation button in the top left, next to 'ALL'. It also has a corresponding #home IRC channel, and this is also the default IRC channel now shown in user profiles.

We are also releasing a new feature called "allminus". This lets you exclude any subs you want from /s/all. So, for example, if you wish to see /s/all but exclude /s/worldnews and /s/pics, you can make a custom link like this: https://saidit.net/s/all-worldnews-pics. You can use this to exclude any subs you like. Reddit's open source code had this available to gold members only, but we're opening it to everyone.

We also enabled the sub rules functionality. Available at each sub at its respective URL like this: https://saidit.net/s/saidit/about/rules/

Finally, we added the ability to sticky comments within posts. If you are the moderator of a sub, you can sticky a comment to the top of any thread in that sub. This is useful for announcement comments and automoderator comments. To enable this, you click 'distinguish' on the comment, then click 'yes & sticky'.

Just hours ago SaidIt had its 1,000th user account created. To everyone who is new, welcome to SaidIt and we hope you enjoy the site!

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[–]magnora7[S,M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

And as always please post any bug reports or feature suggestions right here.

[–]Orangutan 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Spread the word of SaidIt!!

[–]HibikiBlack 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Congratz on the user number 1.000. Everyone did an excellent job!

[–]renlok 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Good move on removing greymarket from the home. It was getting to the point where every other post was from there

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Glad you like it. Yeah exactly, it was too much. It felt like I was wading through a bazaar to find my news.

[–]KNOWLEDGE 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was having a hard time wanting to direct people from other sites here because of the whole grey market vending and beef going on in that sub I always looked at that sub on front page as very off putting for people who are looking for a more personal experience. I am not trying to diminish the value of grey market I think it is very important for people to procure the goods they need when otherwise unavailable, I just don’t think it should be front page material , new people come and say I was looking for aww cute not clam and clam powder

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I understand completely, I have also been a bit embarrassed by the front page for a couple weeks now. I'm glad we made the change, now we can have the community we want to have!

[–]Orangutan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We need youtube links and imgur links to have drop down options to view so we can stay on the page and not have to redirect to linked page.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. It's called expando, and it's a feature of RES we hope to port to saidit soon. It's high on the to-do list, but I'll bump it up a little more because I agree it's a bit annoying not to have it.

[–]intifan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I've been looking around and haven't been able to find the answer for myself: is there any way to make the home page default to only the subs that we've subscribed to?

ninja edit: I love seeing all the weekly progress going on here, keep up the great work!

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

nope, there's currently no way to do that but /s/subscribed has only your subs. you could adjust things in RES if you really wanted to.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Maybe we could eventually add a user profile option to set /s/subscribed as their home page if the user wants

[–]intifan 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That would be great, because that's one feature about reddit that I can appreciate is having reddit.com directly go to my subscribed subs. Having that here, and still having the home IRC channel there would be great, because that's what's currently missing by doing a little workaround.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yeah that would be challenging but I think doable. maybe offer the option for all to be your home too.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

yeah, makes sense to me. We could even just leave the URL functionality alone and have a quick redirect to /s/all or /s/subscribed if they have the box checked. So you go to saidit.net and it loads up saidit.net/s/all if you have that selected as your home page, and the URL displays saidit.net/s/all. I don't think it's necessary to mask that as saidit.net, which would be more complicated. Just thinking out loud, I'll add it to the to-do wiki

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, that could work for sure. it would be a little slower, but that might be the best we can do. as long as we dont redirect everyone or mess up seo.

Well chat is pretty active which is cool to see. The server load seems to be doing alright still.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also if you guys don't know, you can make a multisub with just a link/url, the opposite of AllMinus: https://saidit.net/s/gardening+11MRadio+C_S_T

[–]Orangutan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

We need to eventually get listed on this site sharing service as an add to option:

https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/faq/#often

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's probably a good idea. Do you think those drive a significant amount of traffic?

[–]Orangutan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not really. I'm just saying it out of convenience because that is how I personally share links. One less copy and paste procedure. I can't imagine it would hurt though. When I left Digg it was in large part because Reddit was set up with all the group social media buttons that Digg had. Something to work on down the line. I contacted them a few months ago and I don't think I heard back. It's just a plug in or add on for Firefox browser.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh gotcha. Good to know, we'll look in to it