Ask HN: bikechatter.com - review & suggestions

Post by davidw » Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

nswanberg wrote: post #19

davidw wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks, those are good suggestions. I don't really care about 'unclogging twitter' - that's for someone else to deal with, I just wanted to provide a nice group of cycling feeds, grouped together. Voting for interesting messages is a good idea, as is adding some information in order to give some information about riders who are not Lance Armstrong and thus relatively obscure.

The rider list is the only missing feature that I had expected to find. Seems that there are two areas to cover: who's on Twitter and what are they saying. As for who, definitely add more information but consider grouping the riders for context (by nationality, team, specialty, recent/upcoming races, etc.). Consider adding a text box to suggest another rider. And as for what they're saying, a sort of "mute" button wo…