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Feature Request: Give us APIs
I perform most of my cognitive work on the web through Google reader (as opposed to e-mail.) I would like to request a filtered feed that indicates comments on activity I'm following, friend requests, and other things that would normally go into e-mail.
Edit:
Turns out there is one. For people who are interested, look at your profile, scroll to the bottom of your activity log, and the rss icon /there/ is of your log. A bit unwieldy, but it works.
Edit2: We need the APIs exposed. Let us build our own tools from the components of the site.
Edit3: As noted in the comments, I made a yahoo pipe. Here's a list of published pipes pointing at urgentEvoke.com http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/search? r=source:urgentevoke.com For a RSS howto see my blog post.
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Permalink Reply by Brian Ballsun-Stanton on
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Addendum. That log is pretty useless in practice. Updated request: "Interesting activity feed" where interactions with posted content and new content from "people you follow" (shouldn't require bi-directionality) but not their interactions can appear in one aggregated feed.
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More feature requests: Please show badges and points next to names in search results. Allow us to set points based parameters for our search results. I'm not interested in searching through people who aren't active to find interesting local people.
Feature request 4: Remember sort preferences. Choosing sort by random every time is a waste of clicks. Of course, if we had proper following aggregation, we wouldn't need this.
Feature request 5: Have a "follow people" option. I know that there's a mentor site for that, but there's no integration. EVOKE would be far more useful with a following "paradigm" (Sorry Kuhn) than a "friend" paradigm. Especially as symetrical following *is* friendship for purposes of this site.
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Permalink Reply by Crystal Bellar on
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I've got the cliq- running andriod I want to be able to put my EVOKE e-mails into an feed that allows me to just scroll through easily instead of the gazillion e-mails I've been getting.
I want to know- but my personal inbox has been overrun! Atleast google has labels so I can organize better.
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Yeah. I'm actually doing something with yahoo pipes right now to ... maybe fix that. I'll drop a link in this thread when I'm happy with it.
Crystal Bellar said:I've got the cliq- running andriod I want to be able to put my EVOKE e-mails into an feed that allows me to just scroll through easily instead of the gazillion e-mails I've been getting.
I want to know- but my personal inbox has been overrun! Atleast google has labels so I can organize better.
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Permalink Reply by Nathaniel Fruchter on
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I'll let this one slip: as a game runner and a developer of EVOKE tools, I kind of want an API too. However, Ning is (IMO) unreasonably restrictive—they used to have APIs, but they took them away in favor of the not-so-good OpenSocial APIs from Google that don't really achieve what I wanted to achieve.
Yeah. It's a limitation.
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Any API is better than what I'm doing now. Have a linky?
Nathaniel Fruchter said:I'll let this one slip: as a game runner and a developer of EVOKE tools, I kind of want an API too. However, Ning is (IMO) unreasonably restrictive—they used to have APIs, but they took them away in favor of the not-so-good OpenSocial APIs from Google that don't really achieve what I wanted to achieve.
Yeah. It's a limitation.
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Well, I've got a really horrible hack.
Discussed here:
http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/a-personalied-rss-feed-for
It does kinda-sort what I need it to do, inasmuch as it collates friends' blog posts and lists activity. I need to figure out how to get it to list discussion activity, but I think that's for another tool. This would be so much easier with real API doc**entation.
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Give us subforums please. We need a "Games and Challenges" forum, a "Help and Advice" forum, a "Suggestions, Bugs, and Whinging" forum, a "Let's meet" forum, and an "Off topic forum."
Please?
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Permalink Reply by Luci Temple on
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Absolutely - all the information on this site is difficult to navigate, and it's only going to get worse as more people join. Subforums would be a good easy start.
Need better ways to sort through "the evidence". Set categories that cover the main issues, plus a 'miscellaneous', so you can browse through the issues you're interested in without any trouble.
Better ways to find other members with similar interests to your own, to aid collaboration. Current search function is too limited.
I really love the idea of Evoke, but the website usability issues are a let down, taking more time to find stuff than it should.
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Currently discussing this. Watch this space.
Re: the APIs—here you go-http://developer.ning.com/notes/Notes_Home
It's not much.
Luci Temple said:Absolutely - all the information on this site is difficult to navigate, and it's only going to get worse as more people join. Subforums would be a good easy start.
Need better ways to sort through "the evidence". Set categories that cover the main issues, plus a 'miscellaneous', so you can browse through the issues you're interested in without any trouble.
Better ways to find other members with similar interests to your own, to aid collaboration. Current search function is too limited.
I really love the idea of Evoke, but the website usability issues are a let down, taking more time to find stuff than it should.
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Thanks for the response, Nathaniel. To a first approximation, those docs look like it's internal-to-server only.
One idea sparked from reading them is make us an EVOKE playground where people like me can write some stuff that would be run "internally" subject to code review. I'd love to ask for EVOKE to be open source, just so we know what hooks we can hit, but I expect that's asking for too much.
If given proper API access, I'd implement a point-giving economy module. (3 functions. 1) Display the posts with the most points by category and posts that have had the most points added in the last time x. 2) Give people the ability to burn their own points to give them to others. 2a) Maybe allow people to burn their own points at something like 5:1 to burn them from others. 3) Display a log of those points transfers, publically. 3a) Display a voting log of power votes in general.
What I'm doing now is non-site based RSS hackery. Exposing an RSS or JSON (please, oh please) half-way API could be useful for the kind of remixes I've done with... rather less BS. Functions that would make me squee: "Given a Display name, output screenName and userName." "Given a screenName, output list of friends Screennames." "Given a screenName, output Display name." "Given a screenName, output a filterable via POST or GET flags list of activity. Filters include "Incoming and outgoing: Forums, comments, blogs, pictures, votes, and videos."
It's... trivial to implement the above with internal code access, but that gets back to sandbox zone. In non-sandbox, it's possible to do via JSON/REST without too much trouble.
Nathaniel Fruchter said:Currently discussing this. Watch this space.
Re: the APIs—here you go-http://developer.ning.com/notes/Notes_Home
It's not much.
Luci Temple said:Absolutely - all the information on this site is difficult to navigate, and it's only going to get worse as more people join. Subforums would be a good easy start.
Need better ways to sort through "the evidence". Set categories that cover the main issues, plus a 'miscellaneous', so you can browse through the issues you're interested in without any trouble.
Better ways to find other members with similar interests to your own, to aid collaboration. Current search function is too limited.
I really love the idea of Evoke, but the website usability issues are a let down, taking more time to find stuff than it should.
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Feature request, trivial: "Exclude people who have not done quest 1 from search results" checkbox.
Bug fix: There are a number of people in advanced search who have wonky power scores. But they're the /same/ wonky.
Reproduction of bug:
Go to: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/KathleenQuills
Or: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/SarahCarlisle
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