On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 03/10/2012 04:13 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:<br>
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Before I start doing a technical review of this, what do people think of<br>
the general design of it and the direction it's going in?<br>
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I don't really have a plus or minus opinion on it.<br>
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I just want to offer one thought, and that's there being a fundamental difference between your average commercial web portal landing page (be that your facebook home page, your twitter stream, whatever page you land at after login with myriad services) and OSM.<br>
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OSM doesn't need you to use the web page.[...]
</blockquote><div><br>Twitter doesn't either, but let's get that out of the way. I think Twitter is actually an example of what we would want to work towards: a solid API for all essential tasks, with some attractive optional extras on the web site. In Twitter's case that is, for example, the Interactions page that combines mentions, retweets and new followers in a convenient stream.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, I would hope that whatever direction the re-shaping of the user
pages goes in OSM, thes pages will always remain an optional extra that
you can use if you want, rather than becoming a central spot that
everyone is expected to log in to every day.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div><br>I don't think that with the current redesign efforts there's any risk of OSM requiring users to log in to the web site to perform common tasks or generally be 'in the loop'. If anything, I think this work will reduce dependence on the web site to stay informed. The user stream, first version of which is part of this commit, will be available as a feed in the future. I think it's also worth discussing expanding the API to include more 'social' functions such as sending messages and getting nearby users. These would be authenticated API calls, of course. <br>
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