It’s not vague, it’s general! =). But also yes the UX is a bit vague and just incomplete. We could probably characterize it a bit more clearly by listing the kinds of queries/views/activities it supports. For some users, a thin frontend for learning and running various types of queries will be all they really want.
polling, fetching news: Show everything in tag from my presence in a web, that has been posted within date range
replying: view the replies to an article (and some of the replies to the replies) that are qualified by a particular web (this should enable every conceivable demographic to find a commentariate that they like and want to engage with, which would be pretty darn neat)
notifications: View recent replies to my articles (or articles I’ve subscribed to) from presences in the web reachable from my presence, or submission requests. Other things, probably.
chatting: (I didn’t mention this at all) seeing a realtime view that is focused on one head of a reply chain and its most recent branches. Probably eventually offer an additional view that shows other active chats you might be interested based on their topic tags and the participants involved. There should not need to be a firm distinction between asynchronous discussion venues and chat venues and I believe we can open a channel between them!
processes and views for promoting the creation of new tags, the formation of new webs: Legitimately vague, I don’t know how this should be done, I’ve mainly been asking how to enable good networks to exist and sustain themselves over time (the answers are: specificity of purpose, and accountably inheriting trust), the question of how to accelerate the formation or reshaping of the network might be a whole other component of the problem.
Regarding Vagueness:
It’s not vague, it’s general! =). But also yes the UX is a bit vague and just incomplete. We could probably characterize it a bit more clearly by listing the kinds of queries/views/activities it supports. For some users, a thin frontend for learning and running various types of queries will be all they really want.
polling, fetching news: Show everything in tag from my presence in a web, that has been posted within date range
replying: view the replies to an article (and some of the replies to the replies) that are qualified by a particular web (this should enable every conceivable demographic to find a commentariate that they like and want to engage with, which would be pretty darn neat)
notifications: View recent replies to my articles (or articles I’ve subscribed to) from presences in the web reachable from my presence, or submission requests. Other things, probably.
chatting: (I didn’t mention this at all) seeing a realtime view that is focused on one head of a reply chain and its most recent branches. Probably eventually offer an additional view that shows other active chats you might be interested based on their topic tags and the participants involved. There should not need to be a firm distinction between asynchronous discussion venues and chat venues and I believe we can open a channel between them!
processes and views for promoting the creation of new tags, the formation of new webs: Legitimately vague, I don’t know how this should be done, I’ve mainly been asking how to enable good networks to exist and sustain themselves over time (the answers are: specificity of purpose, and accountably inheriting trust), the question of how to accelerate the formation or reshaping of the network might be a whole other component of the problem.