Browse Users page

[mattyg]

A page to facilitate the discovery of other users -- particularly for when a user is new to the app, and is not following anyone yet.

This page should be linked to from the HomePage.

The UX should expose some semi-random collection of user accounts, so the user can find a few interesting to them to follow

[mattyg]

Another possibility is this could be a component that is displayed on the HomePage, rather than being a seperate page the user has to navigate too. The idea being that when a user first joins the app, they choose a few users to follow, then they can transition into the typical MewsFeed view.

[dauphin3]

yes I like this as a widget, perhaps a popup prompt

I'm not so familiar with actual Twitter, but I would imagine they give new users a suggestion list to follow It would be really cool if that was based on a short survey of interests ie select topics/categories, personalities, etc

it would also be cool to be able to upload contacts from other Happs and/or rollup a TrustGraph of known Agents

[bierlingm]

So the million dollar question then is how those accounts to be displayed on that page are to be selected. The two options that I can think of where it could be pulling from:

1. DHT neighborhood neighbors (is that technically possible?)
2. Recently joined profiles (as found under the profiles anchor)

You could then add some randomizing logic like skipping a random number of profiles or converting your own agent pub key into an interval to apply to the list, or something like that.