Give us a way to communicate with other Tagpacker users.
I've been with you all since March 2017 or so but I feel so alone here. I only have two followers in all that time and one of them is YOU (a bot as it were, since you auto-follow all users upon them joining). There is no way to interact with or mingle with other users that I am aware of.
It'd be nice to say hello to people from time to time and tell them "Hey I really dig this Tagpacker service, don't you?!" ..."Any chance you may have some good links for such and such, blah, blah, blah" and so on.
But yeah, without any interaction with other people it really does feel like we're the only one here. I know you have to worry about bots and spammers with some form of chat platform but one way to mitigate that from happening is to a time limit on when the chat opens up such as after three months of being a User combined with a link upload history spanning three months.
So for example I have been here since March or April 2017 and though I went inactive for a month or two I started uploading links again and I have a history of activity showing I upload a few links every couple of days or so for the last two months. So the chat would open up for me to use because I have been a Tagpacker user since March/April and I also have a history of actively uploading links every now and again in all of that time.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and for being a Tagpacker user since March :)
Currently, we support different way to get in touch with other users with similar interests.
1. https://tagpacker.com/network is your “Network Dashboard”. It shows the latest links of users you follow. On the left side you have “Tag channels”. If you click on a channel, lets say “Productivity”, you filter links tagged “Productivity”.
Below the channels there is a section “Users posting to this channel”. It only contains users you are not following yet.
2. When you click the share button of a link, you can recommend that link to one of your followers (“Recommend to your followers on Tagpacker”). Also, you can add a personal message.
We’re planning to extend that feature to allow unregistered users to recommend links for your collection. But this is still in planning.
(3.) In one of the next versions we’ll support link comments. This is currently under development but there is no release date yet.
But you are right, there could be more/other ways to get in touch with other users.
If there are enough votes we could implement your chat feature proposal.
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Mark Kehn commented
Bots and spammers wouldn't be patient enough to deal with this time delay and restriction I don't think so that would eliminate the bulk of them from pestering us all.