First Week Retrospect

It's nice to find a niche website such as SpaceHey that replicates the feel of a early 00's social networking space. I've since long contemplated in moving here but I finally got the decision to do so. So, here I am.

What I liked about it?

I'm sure SpaceHey has a forum building template used to have the feature that it has. But, I've never been to similar sites, which is why I'm judging it on its own product.

Blogging and having been heard, even it's a meager of one comment per 2 posts, is a lovely feedback to receive, positive or negative. I've made blog sites from Blogger and Wordpress but none stick to me because I really, really am stuck in my own lonely world. 

Bulletin feature is a great idea and addition to this site. It has the feel of making tweet-like microblogs in a spur of a moment, and gets discarded a day or week later. 

Instant Messages is a must-have function, so I'd expect it to be there. I've heard there's the group chat one. Sadly, I've never been invited to any group chats. That's a me problem. I'm sort of shy of new people anyhoo.

Forums are a little less than active, but I'm not one to complain. I post more than I should there, since I'm not required to write article length blogs like this one, for example. 

Layouts features cool ways to customize your profile page... for better or worse. Spare my eyes from the rainbow vomit pages ;-;

Problems I have encountered

There are problems here, not naming the ones that are instigated by users, but the functionality I wish to see more from SpaceHey. Here are my suggestions.

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Features Need To Be In SpaceHey

Better Search Function in Blog

      In the Blog section has the Top Blog and Recent Blog, with the Top Blog containing the most viewed blog at the uncertain time period, according to this post by Bill Liam East, and the Recent Blog showcases the latest blogs published at the moment. All of which regardless of the category it was in. When picking a certain topic, it also showcases the Top Blog for that category, and there's no option to view the newest blogs. What I'm asking is for a feature to browse from the Blog category at the most recent posted in that category. 

Blocking Terms

     Aside from blocking users from ever commenting on your page or seeing them in Blog or Forum, I want, when searching for a blog or browsing through categories, a way to block blogs that contains certain terms and such. The reason for this suggestion because I come across SEObros pushing their journalistic articles in the Blog section and I see it as a SPAM. I've encountered and blocked two different individuals publishing articles in a place where I don't want to see them. It appears to be an unavoidable problem to have folks (or dare I say, bots) pushing SEO 𝔟𝔲𝔩𝔩𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔱 into niche sites like this. I even posted a rant in the SpaceHey Forum.

🐉This is Rib-Eye Black Dragon writing this.🐉

 I mostly post tech and web related stuff, and occasional fandom stuff in the bulletins only. 

Signing off. Peace. 🐉🐉