I also don't know if we want to have only "watching", or also friending, or something. People watch other people to see their art, to promote their art, and just because they're buddies. Surely we can capture these intentions somehow. Maybe it's possible to do something like with plug albums, where if you're watching B who plug-watches C, you get a notification. Or maybe that would be super annoying.
I also also don't know how finely-grained the controls for what you actually watch should be. Tags per artist would be horrendously inefficient, but I assume if you don't want to see pony art from one artist, you don't want to see it from any artist, so the tag filter ought to cover that. Per-album? Just art-vs-announcements-vs-plugs?
Do artists actually care about every individual new watch? I mean, when you're just starting out, knowing someone new watched you is pretty cool, but I doubt established artists care too much about the hundred strangers who newly want to see their art. Need to think about this when doing notifications (#16).
addendum: It occurs to me that there is no global UI for indicating newly-watched art, and the watchstream doesn't have any concept of read-vs-not. Whoops!
I don't actually know if this is done, ho ho.
I also don't know if we want to have only "watching", or also friending, or something. People watch other people to see their art, to promote their art, and just because they're buddies. Surely we can capture these intentions somehow. Maybe it's possible to do something like with plug albums, where if you're watching B who plug-watches C, you get a notification. Or maybe that would be super annoying.
I also also don't know how finely-grained the controls for what you actually watch should be. Tags per artist would be horrendously inefficient, but I assume if you don't want to see pony art from one artist, you don't want to see it from any artist, so the tag filter ought to cover that. Per-album? Just art-vs-announcements-vs-plugs?
Do artists actually care about every individual new watch? I mean, when you're just starting out, knowing someone new watched you is pretty cool, but I doubt established artists care too much about the hundred strangers who newly want to see their art. Need to think about this when doing notifications (#16).
addendum: It occurs to me that there is no global UI for indicating newly-watched art, and the watchstream doesn't have any concept of read-vs-not. Whoops!