What do you most want to be able to do on a site like this?
Browse other people's information to get ideas and try to learn more about growing things. I'd particularly like to be able to see what people geographically near me are doing so I can get new ideas for things to plant that may do well where I am.
What's missing from other sites that you've looked at?
I haven't looked around much for one. I generally won't sign up for sites that ask a bunch of intrusive and required questions during sign-up, so I'm not online very many places. I'm also leery of places that are advertiser-focused and/or seem to be venture capital projects planning for a sale to a larger company rather than something the owners want to run long term.
What would make you keep coming back/staying involved, rather than drifting away?
For reading, if I found at least one user telling an interesting "story" so that I wanted to find out what was happening next in their garden, as long as the site made it easy to keep up with their updates and filter things in such a way that I can keep up with just the things I'm interested in. For my own use, if I could customize things enough that whatever I didn't like about the default set-up didn't drive me away. (I know that's really vague - I'm not sure how to make it more specific without just going on a rant about what I think is wrong with various websites.)
If this site just did one thing really well, what do you wish it was?
Flexible privacy controls. I may want some information, particularly information that makes it easy to figure out where I live, to be less public than other information, so I'd want some kind of post-by-post or thing-by-thing privacy options as well as a blanket setting. I might, for example, only let certain users see pictures of my hypothetical front yard with its equally hypothetical distinctive yard art whereas everyone can see pictures of the hypothetical raised beds I'm using to grow spinach out back.
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ninetydegrees
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on 2012-07-31 12:22 am (UTC)Browse other people's information to get ideas and try to learn more about growing things. I'd particularly like to be able to see what people geographically near me are doing so I can get new ideas for things to plant that may do well where I am.
What's missing from other sites that you've looked at?
I haven't looked around much for one. I generally won't sign up for sites that ask a bunch of intrusive and required questions during sign-up, so I'm not online very many places. I'm also leery of places that are advertiser-focused and/or seem to be venture capital projects planning for a sale to a larger company rather than something the owners want to run long term.
What would make you keep coming back/staying involved, rather than drifting away?
For reading, if I found at least one user telling an interesting "story" so that I wanted to find out what was happening next in their garden, as long as the site made it easy to keep up with their updates and filter things in such a way that I can keep up with just the things I'm interested in. For my own use, if I could customize things enough that whatever I didn't like about the default set-up didn't drive me away. (I know that's really vague - I'm not sure how to make it more specific without just going on a rant about what I think is wrong with various websites.)
If this site just did one thing really well, what do you wish it was?
Flexible privacy controls. I may want some information, particularly information that makes it easy to figure out where I live, to be less public than other information, so I'd want some kind of post-by-post or thing-by-thing privacy options as well as a blanket setting. I might, for example, only let certain users see pictures of my hypothetical front yard with its equally hypothetical distinctive yard art whereas everyone can see pictures of the hypothetical raised beds I'm using to grow spinach out back.