Re: Subscribing to pages was Re: Freenet usage, goals, and Iran

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Matthew
Toseland<toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 23:19:04 Niels Egberts wrote:
>> > way to add content in freesite form should be not far behind it,
>> > though.  (And for a more mundane reason: right now, a lot of our new
>> > users look around and decide there isn't much content.  They never set
>> > up Frost or FMS.  Having an active collection of blogs would give them
>> > something to explore when first setting up Freenet.)
>>
>> An idea that popped up in my mind that should be little work but could
>> be very handy for newbs:
>> Something like -subscribe to this page- would be cool. That you get a
>> message when the page has an update. Like how the bookmarks work, but
>> without having all of them of the first page. And call it
>> 'subscribing' instead of 'bookmarking'.
>
> IMHO bookmarks should do exactly that. And they may, after sashee's dynamic content work. Or maybe we even send events through the system tray applets?
>

I think it would be handy that the new user 'knows' he can receive
updates by bookmarking them. I think most people will bookmark stuff
through the browser. I think calling it Subscriptions/Bookmarks is
more logical for people.