I would like to see how many people read to the end. I have an 18 min read post, and I can see that many people read for 1m 30s so probably read the tl;dr or summary, but it does tell me that a number of people did read for much longer. I’d like to know how many read it to the end so I can tell if maybe posts need to be much shorter.
May not be possible, but wishlist idea would be to know a bit more about who these users are in terms of interest demographic. If my post is AI Safety but most of those who click away fast have animal welfare listed as their primary interest then that’s not an issue. But if my post is AI Safety and lots of AI Safety people didn’t read or engage, then that’s an issue I need to fix. This may not be feasible to implement however.
All in all I like it, and it feels like it gives insight into developing better engagement habits rather than encouraging clickbait.
wishlist idea would be to know a bit more about who these users are in terms of interest demographic
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. It would be possible to implement something like this, one issue would be that a lot of people don’t fill out the topics they are interested in, but it could be possible to get round this by basing it on the other posts they read rather than their stated interests.
The thing about reading to the end is something I was planning to add, I have been envisioning a graph like this on the post analytics page (see below, random example from google), would that fit what you’re looking for?
Perhaps having a forum option to add tags to your profile, if you’re interested in this data being collected?
For the reading to end, yes that would be fantastic. Obviously it can’t tell what people were looking at when they left, but based on average reading time it would help pinpoint just how long certain topics should be.
Great to see the stuff you guys are up to with the forum though!
I would like to see how many people read to the end. I have an 18 min read post, and I can see that many people read for 1m 30s so probably read the tl;dr or summary, but it does tell me that a number of people did read for much longer. I’d like to know how many read it to the end so I can tell if maybe posts need to be much shorter.
May not be possible, but wishlist idea would be to know a bit more about who these users are in terms of interest demographic. If my post is AI Safety but most of those who click away fast have animal welfare listed as their primary interest then that’s not an issue. But if my post is AI Safety and lots of AI Safety people didn’t read or engage, then that’s an issue I need to fix. This may not be feasible to implement however.
All in all I like it, and it feels like it gives insight into developing better engagement habits rather than encouraging clickbait.
Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that. It would be possible to implement something like this, one issue would be that a lot of people don’t fill out the topics they are interested in, but it could be possible to get round this by basing it on the other posts they read rather than their stated interests.
The thing about reading to the end is something I was planning to add, I have been envisioning a graph like this on the post analytics page (see below, random example from google), would that fit what you’re looking for?
Perhaps having a forum option to add tags to your profile, if you’re interested in this data being collected?
For the reading to end, yes that would be fantastic. Obviously it can’t tell what people were looking at when they left, but based on average reading time it would help pinpoint just how long certain topics should be.
Great to see the stuff you guys are up to with the forum though!