We’re working on a multireddit feature which will let people join or leave large groups of related Communities with a single click, and see all the posts from those communities in a single list. These groups will be crowd-sourced, so anyone can create or share collections of Communities around their interests. Basically the same as https://piefed.social/topics except crowd-sourced (and federated?).
We’re stuck on what to call this feature, though, and your creativity could really help us out! Here are some ideas we’ve been tossing around:
- Bundles
- Community Packs
- PieSlices
- Stacks
- QuickJoin Packs
- Collections (kbin called it this)
- Topics (we call them this now but they’re all maintained by the instance admin)
Which of these do you like best? Do you have any suggestions of your own? We’re aiming for something that’s easy to understand, catchy, and fits the PieFed ethos. I’ll copy those suggestions into individual comments on this post so people can upvote what resonates with them.
The problem I have with ideas like “Collections” or “Topics” is those concepts have no relation to “Communities” which increases the learning new users need to do while getting comfortable. Something more intuitive like “Towns” is more obviously a larger or group of “Communities”, for example.
Please throw your ideas into the comments below and vote on what you see!
Yes this is probably the best answer, where it being vanilla is part of the point.
You can easily combine it with other words to make it more clear too. “Community Feed” for instance. Or “Pie Feed” if you want to lean into the branding/mascot. But the “feed” core remains and explains what it is.
What’s more, as people may hate it, BlueSky is basically using the same term for the same generic idea (custom bundling of content streams).
Yeah, using feeds in combination with other terms really makes it perfect. It is intuitive for SNS users and covers a broad range of meaning, appropriate for this usecase.