What should Fluther 3.0 be like, but not in the sense you think I'm talking about?

I think that, because you have such an in depth interest in this matter, that you should team up with the head flutherists and make their world a better place.

@Fred931: Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to condense that text to four clear sentences.

@gailcalled Mission Impossible 4 offer declined.

I think fluther is kind of cute and easy to work with now.
Why don’t you make a wireframe and post it so we can see what you are talking about.
Your changes sound very complicated and confusing to me.

Sounds creative and interesting, but I’m afraid it might be more confusing. Aside from cleaning up some quirks of the site (like getting that stop following all button you mentioned), I pretty much love it the way it is.

Well I like the bubble-popping idea. There’s a free game app on iPhone by that title :)

Unfortunately the Google Image Swirl thing picture won’t display on iPhone so I can’t really visualize how it would look.

But it def. sounds intriguing.

Great, if you want to drive off 90% of the users over 45 years old. This is a Q&A site, not a video game. The “new rules” are really just a tweak on the old ones, my only problem was not initially understanding how they would be applied. Please, keep things simple for us Bronze Age boomers.

@augustlan @stranger_in_a_strange_land Then let’s add a tutorial.
@anartist Dunno what a wireframe is and I’m not too good with art unless I spend a lifetime on each work, assuming a wireframe is some sort of picture.

@Fred931 you had so much to say about web design that I thought you would know.
from wikipedia:
A website wireframe is a basic visual guide used in interface design to suggest the structure of a website and relationships between its pages.

@Fred931: I agree with @stranger in a strange land. Unimaginable to me to bother with a tutorial here, no matter who wrote (and edited) it.

@gailcalled Not like a written tutorial, but an interactive one that actually takes new users through the Q&A process and shows them how to get around and post things by telling them to choose a category and question, and then answering the question. Something like that.

@Fred931 Still too complex. If it’s not simple and intuitive at first glance, the system will drive away existing users and discourage new users.

@Fred931 what don’t you like about fluther’s design now?

BTW I don’t like Google’s Image Swirl at all—gimmicky to no point

@stranger_in_a_strange_land if all the information goes in and out of the same place, then it shouldn’t be a bother to make a new version run parallel to the old one. I’ll have the link labeled “Go to Stranger’s version”.
@anartist I like the current design just fine, but wanted to know what a completely revised version would look like.

@Fred931 Thanks for sharing the neat ideas. Maybe once we open up our API, you can build this yourself. :)

@ben Too bad I have no real experience with programming. The only thing I’ve made with code is a quick BASIC text app that requires a password. I was proud of it, but was annoyed because something about it was broken and I had to alt-F4 the program every time I ran it after it terminated.

@anartist In Swirl, when you select a photo, it searches the web for other photos with similar tags and image qualities and presents those in the new “bubble.” For example, if you were to do an image search for something unspecific, such as “car,” then there would be too many photos to search through to select from. In Swirl, if you search with the same vague criteria, it gives you a set of pictures to choose from that best suit your needs, i.e. a very smoothly crafted car rather than just any old one. I don’t think a related-question system would work well with this already-complex system, though I can visualize its integration.