I totally vibe with the idea of a personal user space. I liken it to a public profile page/space.
Yeah, what if the URL were kinopio.club/username, like kinopio.club/bentsai? Maybe that could be a feature for upgraded folks. It feels like “claiming” some space on this platform, like you get your own section of the club.
But this is a good point too. It might be pretty attractive for folks trying the service out, a great way to get them started with some sort of template/idea (which I think would be helpful – my sense is that people find Kinopio, but don’t necessarily know what to do with it to exercise it. what better content than something you’re the subject matter expert in?).
Yeah, this is exactly why I created that “directory”. I wanted to promote and explore the idea of people having home pages that others could comment on.
I don’t want to get too far in the weeds on this next topic because I’ve brought it up a lot, but I wonder if creating an Open space feels too open. You have the profile part where you talk about yourself, and then you have a guestbook section. And you probably only want people to add to the guestbook section. But as it is, they can put cards anywhere in the space. A “malicious” person could go and junk up the whole space. This was a big motivation for me to push for a comments feature. The way it is implemented now, you can add comment cards anywhere, which can be collapsed and less intrusive, but you can’t restrict someone to comments. And comment cards can still go anywhere.
okay, I did too:) kinopio.bentsai.org