Signed up for this out of boredom/frustration with App.net which turns out is pretty much just Twitter But Not™. I like the idea of trying a different medium.
Very first thing I looked for were social/collaborative features. Finding none, I manually memed https://thoughtstreams.io/michaeldhopkins/thoughtstreams-feedback/ and that brings us to the conclusion of this first thought :-)
Also feeling like it's quite "clicky" to create a stream, go to it, create a thought, save it, publish it, publish the stream…
Would prefer to save draft vs. publish for my blog and have this site encourage more "thinking out loud".
Also the current publish icon doesn't really feel like "publish" to me; maybe I'm just too used to github's "smiley face vs. lock" for publishing idiom though.
Is there a way to host an image, or do I need to upload somewhere myself?
Just found the "Inbox" — really liking that idea, though I'm always a little afraid of adding another "just collect stuff here and organize it…later" box to my life.
Overall though, really, really liking the idea of a lower-pressure place to work through ideas in the open. I'm excited to see how having something of a medium for internal dialogue ends up working in practice!
Yeah, definitely not liking the two-step "Create" + "Find little mouseover icon" thinking process.
Yeah, definitely my internal dialog follows a Sturgeon's law distribution regarding positive nice things to say. I'm waaaay too picky about software.
This is actually one of the main reasons why I've been wanting to share more about the design processes of my own hobby projects. I crumple up too many interesting thoughts and toss them onto the floor without making anything public; then when I finally have something to share I'm too busy wrestling with the next iteration to do much recap.
Haven't used this much lately.
Some random reasons perhaps why:
I was hoping this would be good for sharing brainstorming-in-the-shower kind of stuff. Unfortunately a) writing conflicts with brainstorming, b) water conflicts with electronics.
it feels too isolated. I wish others could add thoughts to my streams.
actually, I wish others could annotate/edit my cards inline.
in realtime!
without any strong social aspect, it's a bit distasteful to me to host essentially static pages on someone else's property
I'm imaging something more like a mashup of Etherpad, Federated Wiki, Github (and/or its Gists) with a visual design and posting interface ecosystem tailored towards some motto like "Thinking Out Loud, Together"
Instead, right now I feel like I would just be setting up a separate commentless microblog for each of my hobbies — which is actually antithetical to my goal of writing quicker, shorter, more frequent posts about everything I'm working on, on my own site.
New posting interface is nice, and looks like image hosting is now provided too! (Regarding a couple of the earlier cards.)