Wondering if they would also add the "readability" button, who get the shares of those up-votes?
So just as the recent posts about hacker news and how to solve them (http://al3x.net/2011/02/22/solving-the-hacker-news-problem.h..., hn:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2252152) it seems that there are a few more cases where people would like to make new things with to solve them once and for all.
For this case, I wonder if there are any tagging system implemented to sort, the topics are just too board.
A tagging system is a pretty good idea, we will definitely consider implementing something like that.
They offer a revenue sharing model for subscribed users.
A lot of people just want to write something without having to spend time marketing it. It doesn't make sense, why would you want to do that, when all you want to do is write one or two blog posts in a year? Phrot is a very community centric site to blog with. It's designed for the person that wants to write about something, and wants it to be read, but doesn't want to have to go through all the hassle of promoting it.
This isn't designed to replace other blogging platforms like wordpress, just to provide a more suitable alternative for people who want to do things a bit differently. I hope this answers your question :).
At a higher level, I disagree with your point that you can get away without the "hassle" of promoting your content. You'll always have to do some kind of promotion of your content, even if it's really good. And, if it's bad, no amount of promotion will get it anywhere.
IMHO, the main point I'm driving at is that there is no "free lunch". You'll always have to promote your content in order to gain a followship. It's just a fact of the web.
Almost every blog in the world has RSS - why not make it "social RSS"?
I mean, there are already blogs around and many people put ads on their blogs and post links to reddit and HN and get an audience and whatnot.
What I'd like to be able to do is come to Phrot and submit a link to workingsoftware.com.au/rss and know that whenever I post a blog entry it'll go on the home page for people to see. Tagging would obviously be a good way to automate the categorisation, people could upvote and comment just as you have now and Phrot would become another source of "reactions" on the internet through backtype so I would still have that conversation hosted on my blog.
The people should be able to favourite bloggers they like, and plug the feed from Phrot into their favourite RSS reader, and share their favourites and have friends and all that sort of malarky that goes along with the most ridiculous internet buzzword of all time (social).
But forcing me to blog in Phrot won't work for me.
Oh, and while you're solving all my problems, another thing I've always wanted was a way to see what people i know or care about are saying - not a list of massive comments on a blog but just like a chat room that spans the entire internet (not sure if Disqus already does this - if they do it's not particularly obvious but they sure as hell should I reckon!).
AIUI, the idea is that people's friends will also be on phrot so that when somone writes an entry, their friends will see it. If this is the case, do you plan to add friending/following options?
Out of interest, what's it written in?
We don't have plans to add friending/following options at the moment, but it's certainly a possibility in the future. The site is written in PHP with a MySQL backend.
