I know many multiple people have blogged about how to improve StumbleUpon, and while some have not been added, some have. Hopefully this will get noticed. I don’t even care if the people who Stumble this don’t look at anything else on my site, I just want to propose suggestions and additions. Let’s see if it works.
First of all, I personally have over ten thousand stumbles, and lately I’ve been feeling kind of nostalgic, so I want to Stumble all my old thumbs-up pages again. Not everything I want to get is new. Sometimes you just want to experience deja vu.
Next, the ability to trace a Stumbled picture to it’s origin. Have you ever seen a really great image, and clicked on it, only to go through six or seven other Stumblers before finding the original image? This really bugs me. If you see my Page, you’ll see that I review a lot of pictures, most coming from other Stumblers. But I don’t comment about their page, I just title a photo we both happen to like.
Third, I’m sure everyone has once or twice submitted a website to StumbleUpon. Ever notice the various parts of the Discovery page? Let’s take a look, shall we?
Well, to start, the topic list is wrong. It should be based off of the Stumbler’s most often used topics. If this was so, a person like me who stumbles Linguistics enjoys the process more, because it is not tailored to a universal Stumbler, but rather to my settings. Then comes the tags, which, like topics, should be based on frequency. So, say I am searching for Bedouin Soundclash music, the tag Bedouin-Soundclash would be first, followed by other recent tags. Also, the Adult shouldn’t apply to every Stumbler; instead, if a Stumbler is rated ‘R’ or ‘X,’ then it should appear. I’m a very ‘G’ rated person, and I don’t think I would randomly Stumble a site with “nudity or adult content.”
That’s it for now. These are not required, but it still improve on the current design. If you up with any, please share. That’s how they get noticed. Thanks, and spread the word.
