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Hearing how Stumblers play with our features is often the best feedback we receive on how to further improve the product. Today we wanted you to hear from Jane (Stumbler username: gladsdotter), who has used StumbleUpon for six years and has been beta testing the newly imagined StumbleUpon, released to everyone last week. She’s a super smart lady who has created 37 Lists already!
In the six years that I’ve been using StumbleUpon, I’ve seen a number of versions come and go, but I think that the new Beta SU is going to be my favorite. On my Home Page, Activitynot only allows me to see what the Stumblers I am following are adding, Liking, and commenting on, it also shows me which Stumblers are liking sites I myself have added, and which Stumblers are discovering the best content in the Interests I am following.Recommended shows me a variety of sites in my Interests, and with the endless scroll I can find something that fits my mood, however much that might vary from one day to the next. And Trending gives me access to popular sites in Interests I’m not following, providing a glimpse of breaking news stories and hot topics from across the web.
But I think that my favorite feature is Lists. I have long used – and still use – tags to organize my Likes, but Lists offer a way to organize Likes across topics and across tags, into very specific or very broad thematic groupings. And each List offers me a way to visually review all of the sites I have grouped together. Lists can be as specific or as broad as I want. For example, I created a list I call Rivers, which includes photography, travel information, environmental issues, history, water sports, and more, all related in one way or another to rivers. Another one of my lists, titled My Favorite New Yorker Cartoons, consists only of – you guessed it – cartoons from The New Yorker. I have created Lists of sites I want to be able to access quickly when doing research, whether professional or personal, such as The Future of Book Publishing and Wildflower Identification. And I have created other lists that are just for fun, among them Creative Uses of Yarn and Typewriters.