Thanks to everyone who completed our survey on new feature ideas (sent to all members of the Blog Friends Group—do join up if you’d like to get involved in shaping Blog Friends’ future). Your feedback has been encouraging and thought provoking—definitely most helpful in putting us on the right track. : )
Many of your favourite ideas are going to take us some time to deliver, but happily there was one—one of the most popular ones, too—which we have been able to add right away. You wanted more prominent links to your original blog posts, and we have now added them:
We hope that these links will encourage even more readers to click through to your blog(s), participate in your posts’ comments, read more of your posts and so on.
The other thing we have added to Blog Friends in this release is a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page and lots of links to it in your River and profile box. This should help users to get answers to problems and questions quickly, while also allowing us to get on with making Blog Friends better rather than writing answers to lots of similar questions on the Group page forum (although we love to talk to you all).
The last feature release we plan before Christmas is an update to the items we send to your Facebook NewsFeed—we are working to bring you more kinds of more useful information. Details on this blog within the next few days.
2 comments on “FAQ page and better blog links”
Thanks for the FAQ, but I really would like to know how to ‘delete’ unwanted - or ‘filter’ undesired - blog content. I’m not only a fan of ’serendipitous discovery’ online, but I write about it. However, I don’t like getting certain blog content; it’s not worth my time. And with the fact that my Friends on Facebook can see the fair that comes down the ‘River’, I just don’t want to deal with both the unwanted ‘flow’ and the ‘blowback’ from some who may see questionable material in my ‘River’… !! I can’t be the only one who feels this way.
I’ve read the FAQ and searched your site and the Friends Blog info for an answer without success. That’s why I’m writing this.
Thanks in advance.
les
Les—Thanks for the comment. In fact, you are the only person who can see your River, so you only need worry about getting the right content balance for yourself.
I take it you have discovered the “author rating” sliders that allow you to adjust how often how see posts from any given author? They are your friend here: not only can you “turn down” individual bloggers (all the way to zero if you like!), but in turning down a blogger from a top-segment (”Favourite”) rating to a lower one, you additionally make Blog Friends stop showing you posts from that blogger’s own Favourites.
You have prompted me to expand the FAQ with this information, so thanks again.
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