Wondering what, if any, controls are in place to prevent (or discourage) an over-zealous curator from essentially hijacking "My Feed" by submitting a ton of links in a given (followed) topic in a short time. This isn't entirely a theoretical question, by the way; it happened to me this morning in the Travel topic, and introduced a mild but real element of friction into my experience of using My Feed. Any plans to allow users to filter on a per-curator basis? Thanks.
@billbarol we are checking every story for quality and duplication. it is possible someone could put in 20 drone stories all at once... but doubtful over time.
the travel person is above in this feed in fact! if they put in low quality stuff it is deleted. you can block a topic if it gets to active as well.
also, we would 'pause' a spammy person.... and we only allow items that are 1-3 days old and not dupes.
so, we are on this one for sure.
@jason I read the launch ticker every day. For me it's the tech focused version of circa blended w product hunt. Simple, concise, lots of value for the time I spend in it... Is inside suppose to be the manifestation of it but for any topic?
Circa and Inside both on the same day. News curation is the new portal? And I do agree with you that no one has gotten mobile news right just yet.
I got Cirac a while back and stopped using it daily just due to the lack of depth of articles, not the content of what they did cover. I tend to want to surf the top of the news for headlines, looking for what interests me enough for a deeper read. I tend to use Flipboard for that, but there is still a lot of duplicate articles there, even after their latest update.
So is everything going into Inside hand selected so there isn't duplicate coverage? How are you going to handle opinion bias (especially on political articles)?
Have you looked at the new Yahoo news app? I saw it for the first time at their dev conference last week, and they did a good job. And how they added it into their email app for the boredom factor (probably almost the best insight there about user engagement with different apps.)
@Jason: The 3.0 product is sufficiently different from previous versions that there's a bit of a learning curve. Unfortunately, the version I DLed this morning still has the in-app tutorial ("Inside 101") for some earlier iteration. For example, it still includes the thumbs up/down functionality, which you guys seem to have abandoned. Any plans to update the "Inside 101" feature? I really want to like Inside, I keep coming back and re-trying it, but it's a busy app and it feels functionally obscure without a brisk, helpful in-app primer to best practices. Thanks.
@billbarol we just didn't make it that far in time, it won't require an update to the app though, that is actually a webpage at: http://blog.inside.com/inside-101/
we just gotta log into squarespace and update it!
@Jason Launch Ticker is easily the best source of curated tech news there is. With Inside 3.0, over time can I expect this same level of curation in other categories?
That will be the challenge, but we have a paid team of 50 remote workers looking at everything submitted.... we've had less than 5 people abuse the system in the first eight weeks.
I think people have this problem when they don't setup 24 hours monitoring (which costs six figures a year, but is the core of our product). secret had this problem, then they hired the montioring company Whisper uses -- and it went away.
Also, we are considering partnering on verticals with people.
Totally addicted to Inside and the LAUNCH Ticker emails (https://www.launchticker.com/) which have largely replaced all my tech news browsing. Killer job @Jason and team!
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