suggestions on likes & trending

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A few minor suggestions, that I think would be more comfortable:

  • maybe the Likes link (@user?tab=likes) could be moved from the user menu to the left-hand side list, after Notebooks, Collections, Suggestions. As it’s hidden away in the user profile menu, I had almost forgotten it existed
  • it would be nice to have our likes added to the activity menu (you have liked…)
  • conversely, it would be nice to be able to filter out likes (and likes received) from the activity menu
  • rather than spend time re-reading the 120 notebooks selection in /trending, I would definitely use a /trending/rss feed
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Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions @Fil — I’ve opened a couple of tickets.

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Do note that you can get to your likes page from observablehq.com/likes if you want to get there from the URL bar.

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people (me included) can’t seem to find it where it is currently, see
My likes & slack

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see slack

Does this refer to slack.com? Is there a public chat channnel discussion related to Observable? Is that publicized anywhere?

Or maybe https://d3js.slack.com/ ? (I’ve never looked in there.)

If someone wants to start a discussion group involving a somewhat diverse range of topics let me recommend https://zulipchat.com/ as an alternative.

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Yes sorry, I meant the #observable channel on the d3js slack.

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To file in the “baby steps” category — we’ve pushed an update that moves the Likes link into the left-hand navigation, as you suggest. Hopefully it’ll be easier to find now.

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