Path.io
Submitted by dgeiser13 on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 18:02
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I saw this article on RWW about Path.io. It seems like Jim, Listology's creator, was way ahead of his time. I was also amazed to see all of the other listmaking services that people listed in the comments. Unless one of these new startups can recreate the community of some place like Ask Metafilter, for example, I can't see how any of them will ever be better than our good old Listology.
Anyone interested in lists should checkout listiki.com I got a chance to try it out. awesome.
Everyone will be happy to know I've restored search. I have not gotten around to improving its performance and in the meantime people have been clamoring for it to be back. Better to reboot the server every couple weeks I guess. Thanks for your patience everyone!
I just posted on that comment board and "name-dropped" our community. Yeah, I kinda miss the search, but mainly I come on here and continually update about 2-3 lists and when I make a new one I dont care whether someone else has the same list or not (no offense to the other commenter by the way). I love this site because its structured enough so as not to be offputting or scary and its freeform enough that Im not bored of it two seconds later.
My only real complaint: make the highlighting "yellow" again and not baby-shit-green :D
I've been getting more frustrated with Listology with the demise of the search. I really do want it back. I wanted to have a list and wondered if anyone else had already done it. But without search, I couldn't, well, search. So I had to create it. One can't clone what one can't find. So if Path.io has a reasonable list control system AND a search, I'll be moving there.
Cool, cool, just one thing, where has the search gone?
I've talked to a lot of people about Listology over the years and one decision Jim made early on that works (which I never would have done) is that the lists are completely unstructured. This is one reason our lists are so eclecti - they can be lists with mini-reviews, or just a bunch of text, ordered, unordered, whatever. Personally I would have designed the lists in a much more structured way, so I could aggregate and enumerate them more easily, because I'm a data nerd. However, this would have killed the freedom that has spawned the community and especially the discussion around many lists.
Ultimately all communities grow around their strengths and their ability to bring like-minded people together, and god knows the internet has proven there's plenty of room for everyone. Best of luck to them!