Comments on: Thoughts on Squidoo’s Revised Activity Stream

By: Flynn the Cat

Flynn the Cat — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:27:45 +0000

It’s been updated – now all the points are back (as far as I can see) and there are four main filters + ‘All’ (Points HQ News Quests Sales). They don’t work exactly like Fluff’s did, but they do work, and hopefully they’ll be more feedback.

*I haven’t actually seen any poll votes since it was implemented, but the historical ones are there.

And Sales is apparently a temporary thing until they create a new and better page. As they now have a filter for Quests, the Quest tab is probably going soon…

Overall, it’s a needed upgrade and they are DEFINITELY listening to feedback on this one.

What I still want = subfilters on the main filters (e.g. eBay & Amazon, comments/duels/blessings/my stuff, LOTD/other updates)

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:20:49 +0000

I love seeing the blessings too. I don’t always manage to thank everyone — bad Greekgeek! — but they do encourage and inspire me. And sometimes, when I’m not in a hurry, I do like to see some of the other ways people are interacting with and reacting to my lenses.

I think if you don’t have a lot of quizzes and polls, it might not be such an issue to have only the most recent 200 (or 500; gil’s thinking of upping the threshold) activity items showing. The problem is that quizzes and polls are very popular! I’ve got about 12 quiz lenses that are interlinked to pass traffic from one lens to the next, so for one visitor I may have 10-12 separate “quiz” alerts, a comment or two, and maybe a like. Most senior Squids don’t have quite that many poll-lenses and quiz-lenses cluttering up their activity stream, I suspect, so their sales for a few days back would still be visible.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:13:40 +0000

I am one of the Giants that has not had the new Dashboard to check out, so I am relying on comments like this to be my “eyes” for the moment. You make some good points here Ellen. Apart from traffic stats, the only activity I am really interested in is sales and I do pay attention to Angel Blessings, so I can go and thank them.

Considering that the majority of people who have been on Squidoo for awhile are there because they want to make money, I am surprised that HQ is not giving more credence to the Sales activity.

Let’s hope with the feedback they are being given, that this is something they take note of.