While 800 might not sound a lot compared to 200,000 users, that would be a lot of your most regular users. I can see how this might make a few people jittery.
70% of people with the socialite badge were active in the last month - that's a massive retention factor. It compares to just under 10% of all users being active in the last month
Instead of capping the number of friends why not limit access to the activity feed to those with less than 200 friends. The more friends you have the more meaningless it becomes any way.
Alternatively, reduce the activity feed to one month or maybe make the ability to have +100 friends purely a perk for Gold members.
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Why not read some stories instead
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It doesn't make logical sense to me on a social network, whether it's Facebook, Twitter or here, to restrict your friend numbers, that's what networking is all about (provided of course, the servers / setup is up to it, and there's not a huge amount of scope for user abuse / friend spamming).
If it's mainly the activity feed issue, then maybe limit it to the last say, 50 friend most recent friend entries? I don't know about you, but the last time I went on Facebook, I scrolled down the page a few times, and that was enough for me. I must have seen posts by around a dozen or two people at the most.
I have only bout 30 friends, but I'd not wanna be restricted to who I added if I happen to add more people. This is a social site, isn't it? That's part of havin friends, even some as many as 1000 or some with just 30.
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Either restriction doesn't bother me. I have too many friends and I often delete people from the list. I'd like to interact with everyone on the list but time and general disinterest doesn't allow me to. If the activity feed was limited I wouldn't miss anything as I normally use mine just to see if my friends have posted stories.
Edited: That sounds really bad. It isn't that I'm not interested in people, it's that what most people want to talk about, I might not interested in. Some folks are just too damn horny lmao...
Either restriction doesn't bother me. I have too many friends and I often delete people from the list. I'd like to interact with everyone on the list but time and general disinterest doesn't allow me to. If the activity feed was limited I wouldn't miss anything as I normally use mine just to see if my friends have posted stories.
I much prefer myself as social-lite. I'm not much into friend squeezer pleaser. To many baskets lets the pests annoy
God, I don't even know how many people are on my friend list but I'm sure it's well over the 200 allotment. Personally I would rather shut off or limit my activity feed than start the mess of deleting people. I don't even look at my activity feed as it is.
I have a reasonably large friend list. A lot of those have added me because of stories and so forth and I'd be reluctant to delete people even though I might not interact with them so often...
A reduced activity feed would suit me. I really only want to see people's story comments (I'll quite often go on and read what they've read), and forum posts too, I'll quite often check to see what my friends are up to in there.
I mostly check out my "what you've missed" page, that's my favourite just now.
I'd suggest that maybe you would limit the choice to only some of the filters to show on your profile page? Personally I'm not that interested on which pictures or profiles people have commented on and I would happily omit those from my feed. Maybe gold members could select a couple more, as a benefit of the subscription?
I've already got images and videos turned off in my feed and I usually only click to see which forum posts, new stories and story comments have been made...
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Is there a better Electronic Pop band name than "Too Much Socialite"? I think not.
I've often wanted to turn off particular notifications on my activity feed, like we can for ourselves so they don't show on our friends feeds. I don't ever go back to look at the parts of the feed I've missed, but like the fact it's there when I'm online. That option would save me from having to look at "Mr X made a comment on......" 200 times in a row.
Would this help?
Maybe throw the story commented and scored in its own tab...so that if you want to see you get to...or make it say blank scored/commented on blah story. I can see where a cap is bad, but for the average user (not a mod, maybe even gold members) you can let them have say 500 for regulars and like more for gold and then unlimited for mods. just my 2 cents
I think it maybe easier to just be able to have users hide activity so that way that person doesnt have to see it. Would that work at all?
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