💎 Steemit Feature Request: “Keeping Tabs On Our Tribes”

To me, Steemit is missing one key filtering feature for our home feed. I wish for the ability to refine the selection of people we are following. Specifically, I'd like to designate certain people as "My tribe" or "My circle of friends," in order to focus first on the posts generated by the specific people I choose. Know what I mean? I figured out a workaround, and I'll share it here.

“Keeping Tabs On Our Tribes”

The Issue

Note: The Steemit home screen is effective and attractive to me, but I'd like to see another button on the right-side column: "My tribe" or "My circles." Something like that.

Clutter is a challenge. I believe this is the single most important stressor that turns people away from Steemit–especially in the beginning. There's just so much to surf through! I do believe the current filters work well, allowing us to see posts by the people we follow, and track the categories, trending posts, new posts, hot posts... but we can't currently target the posts of our specific selection of friends.

As an @OCD curator, I've demonstrated my expertise at finding the gems in the general feeds, but I've missed many posts by my closest friends because I haven't found an efficient way to track my tribe. I find myself feeling overwhelmed, and wishing to see more posts by my favorite content creators. Can you relate with me?

The Solution

Today, I figured out how to keep a closer tab on my tribe. My answer to the task of keeping in touch with "My tribe" is to create a button that opens multiple tabs in a web browser, each tab holding the blog page of a selected friend. This is achieved with three simple steps:

Open your friends' blog pages in a web browser. Give each one a new tab.
Bookmark these blog pages. Use the "Bookmark All Tabs" button for a shortcut.
In the "Bookmark Manager," keep tabs on your tribe with just one click!

The Visual Aid

The first step is to open your friends' blog pages in a web browser. Give each one a new tab.

Next, you'll bookmark these blog pages. In the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu of Google Chrome, you'll see a button that reads: "Bookmark All Tabs," which saves these tabs in a folder. This folder will become the button that clicks to gold.

Note: Successful bookmarking looks like this. If you look closely at my "Steemians" folder, you'll see a fantastic list of people you might like to follow too!

In the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu, you'll find the "Bookmark Manager." Here, you'll have options for organizing your bookmarks.

Finally, your new bookmarks folder becomes clickable. Select "Open all bookmarks."

The Conclusion

Of course, the first selection process begins with the people we follow. I am currently following 491 people, for example, and I'm very selective of the people I follow. My preference is to continue following these fine folks, as I'm grateful when someone surprises me with a great post! But honestly, I'm here to nurture deeper connections, and I believe I can do this best if I focus on the 40-50 people in my tribe.

I'm just doing my best to make time for Steemit while working my job and keeping track of my kids, so I'd love to know if another option currently exists to keep tabs on my tribe. I imagine there are other efficient ways to narrow down our field of focus, right? Do you have any suggestions or solutions? To me, the natural answer is a single button, i.e. "My tribe," that creates a Steemit feed based on our selected groups of people. The cherry on top would be some more advanced filtering options that might enable us to track our favorite events and challenges too. Yes please!

This post contains 100% original content by @cabelindsay.

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mountainjewel (68) · 7 years ago

Oooh I like where you’re going with this! I would love a built in ability to have a tab of my tribe (and I’m so honored to be on your tab and have you on mine!! 🙏). With what you set up, does it show a feed of the people or you individually open their page?

Do you use @ginabot? I think you can be alerted when these selected people post! It’s not on the steemit platform (alerts are on discord), but i find her soooo immensely helpful. 💕💕

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cabelindsay (60) · 7 years ago

First I've heard of @ginabot. I'll check that out–thanks for the tip! With what I've setup, it's pretty basic. Just opens up my tribe's pages in a new tabs.

elderflower (31) · 7 years ago

Thank you for this. I still stumble around in the dark most days. So any ray of light is a welcome addition.

cabelindsay (60) · 7 years ago (edited)

Took me a long time to get the hang of it. I checked out your blog real quick, and it looks like you're on the right track. You're following some strong Steemians, you're adding quality comments, and you're posting meaningful content. I see already starting to "Steem up," so keep up the good work.

1 vote

Thank you for the encouragement.

heatherthebard (60) · 7 years ago

This would be friggen awesome.

Thanks for agreeing with me. Yeah, it seems like a natural improvement. Wish I knew a way to reach out to the developers more directly. @ned, you listening?

basilmarples (61) · 7 years ago

i love this idea cabe! i want to track my tribe as well!

Fo sho! Yeah, it seems essential to me. Otherwise, we're all missing out on some good posts, bro. At least that's the way I see it.

yahialababidi (68) · 7 years ago (edited)

So much to learn, @cabelindsay! Nearly 4 months into the Steemit game & still figuring it all out :) One way I learned, just recently, to keep up with my tribe is to get notifications from good 'ole @Ginabot when they post.

Have a Beauty-filled day, Yahia