Problem at StumbleUpon, Some Features are Missing Today
Written on February 21, 2008 – 2:03 pm | by oldschool
The reason these features are missing is because they don’t yet exist. Perhaps, someone will correct me and show me that there is a mysterious way to access these features, but I don’t think so. Here are three features that I believe could help make StumbleUpon an even better Social Networking site.
1. IM History. Have you ever sent an article to someone and then not remembered who you sent it to? I would like to be able to see an IM history so that I can see what I have sent to others and what others have sent to me.
2. Ability to Organize Friends by Interest. For example, you may have friends that you connect with on real estate issues, others on marketing issues, and others on babies & pregnancy. Wouldn’t it be great to not only be able to view those friends based on interest, but also to be able to send pages to groups of friends with similar interests instead of having to select each one individually. Some may say it will lead to spam, but if you don’t want to receive recommendations from anyone, you can remove them from your friends list (I’ve done it myself).
3. The Ability To Add More Friends. Why not allow successful stumblers to build their networks beyond 200 friends? It could be based on their activity or the amount of mutual friends that they have, to prevent mass friending which could lead to abuse. I believe that would provide a benefit to the site by allowing top stumblers to have larger mutually beneficial contacts.
Do you agree? Disagree? Are there any features you’d like to see on StumbleUpon?
Here is where you can connect with me on StumbleUpon.
7 Responses to “Problem at StumbleUpon, Some Features are Missing Today”
By Joe Cheray on Feb 22, 2008 | Reply
I think that your first idea would be a time saver also number two as well. I have come to love StumbleUpon due to the fact I get most of my traffic from it. It would be nice to be able to find friends by way of interests rather than have them just randomly put on a page.I dont send many messages on there though. If I see something of interest I utilize the message feature on MyBlogLog or just privately email someone.
By Kelly @ Small Business Guru on Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
Good post. I’m just getting my bearings w/StumbleUpon. It’s addictive and I’m really liking it. But it can be disorienting, particularly for keeping friends etc organized
By Todd on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
I think you hit these spot on. These are definitely the main features that would improve the site…the only other improvement I can think of is perhaps increasing the visibulity of people who have stumbled posts.