Recently, the Suggestions feed made a brief appearance on the User Dashboard's new format. It reminded me of how long I took to find out it existed, and how displeased I was with the fact it only suggests you "social" activities, much like Facebook's suggestions.

The feed currently suggests friends, forum groups and cults based on your friends' activities. (At least that's what it does for me.)

Besides my personal opinion (I find it slightly creepy to friend people solely based on the fact that you have a friend in common), there's the odd situation where the suggested person doesn't even have friend requests enabled. Likewise, I can get suggestions for private CW groups which are invite-only, personal groups that belong to frozen people or cults that I might not even fit the requirements for entering. These aren't merely suggestions that don't interest me, they're downright impossible ones.

Also, if you don't have any friends, Subeta has literally nothing to suggest you.

That's why I think it would be nice to have Subeta (game) Suggestions, instead of... only "social" suggestions, if any of this would ever possible at all!

I was just fussing around on Keith's tumblr and it just reminded me to come make this board xD

quote=subetakeith.tumblr.com we can monitor to see who is doing what (...) I know how people play and use Subeta down to the last second they spend on the site before they close their laptop.[/quote]

Take some of my gaming data, see what I don't do around the site, then put it on that page. Tell me things like:

• some achievements I'm close to getting (forum posts go here!)
• some games I have never played / haven't played in forever
• some NPCs I haven't helped in forever (quests!)
• regular challengers my pet hasn't beaten yet
• link me to good, preferably staff-made help topics/guides: would be particularly useful for newbies, during their first year!
• link me to staff groups that I could be interested in joining (siteupdates) and haven't yet
• tell me about a random newly released pet color, or a newly revamped feature, or a new subeautique set, or a newly added achievement I don't own
• tell me about / link me to new areas of the site I haven't visited yet/not in a long time (raffle ticket shop!)
• tell me about the next upcoming event
• I wouldn't mind seeing a suggestion for buying something newly released on the CS or a GA, as long as it was only one of the 10 things typically shown on that page.
• ...idk? edit: - and then it can keep some of the friend things too just in case you're looking for someone new to strike up conversation, etc ^^ An actual useful addition about the "social" suggestion feed is to have it warn you of upcoming cake-enabled friends birthdays!! pls do it :c

(some of the above ideas were 's - hi I did the thing! xD)

By pushing people to spend more time online working on their goals, they are likely to go find other people pursuing the same thing to share the frustration har har, thus becoming more social. If they don't... well, then they're not social people, leave them xD I think this would make the Suggestions feed worthy of checking when people are just bored of everything and/or don't know what to do "next".

[edit] anyone else dislikes the facebookish thing the suggestions feed currently is?

How is that creepy when that's literally how most friendships are made?

Anyway, there should be more things beyond social stuff for suggestions since suggestions seems to be staying around. Personally, I've never used it because I don't feel any need to, but if others want to use it then there should be more things we do around the site that it takes into account.

Oh, that. Well, do you go around friending people you've never spoken to just because you got a friend in common with them? (do you do that on facebook?) legitimate question, since that's not something I typically do right off the bat. I might eventually become friends with my friends' friends (haha) but not after being "introduced" somehow and then chatting some.

Either way, I'd really like it expanded/recoded so it offers me a larger spectrum of suggestions and (preferably) codes out the impossible things. If I were someone who had friend requests turned off, why'd I want to show as a friend suggestion to other people?

I was mostly thinking in real life. A lot of people meet their friends' friends and also become friends with them. I rarely friend people on Facebook (and deactivated mine for a while), but a lot of people do seem to send friend requests to random people or friends or friends.

I don't see suggestions as being just used to friend people but also to find people you might have something in common with and strike up conversation. Maybe that's not how others might use it, but I'd just see it as, "Oh that person is friends with my friend... they seem like a decent person, maybe I'll chat with them."

But yeah, I think suggestions could definitely be improved by adding more criteria such as games, battling, collections, etc.

That's actually an interesting way to view friend suggestions, which is fairly reasonable too - I amended the OP a bit to make it more clear some social aspect can/should be kept c:

...yeah, while meeting friends' friends is good, random requests are kind of a pet peeve of mine n_n But I'm quite the antisocial person too, haha.

Yeah, I'm not really sure what to do when I get random requests. Sometimes I accept them but then I rarely talk to the person and I feel bad about that. But then, they don't usually say anything to me either. :p How2social?

I might actually start using suggestions if more things were included, though.

Yay a thing! Hopefully this is considered (and expanded upon by more users), as this is something I'd like to see and would probably use.

DON'T FORGET YOUR OWN IDEA-- suggestioning when friends have a birthday coming up xD! That would be super helpful (though people should be able to opt out if they have their cake disabled, since I know some people would likely wipe their friends lists over this).

I really like all of the suggestions, especially the idea of helpful topics and guides for newbies.

Well personally, the reason I don't like this, is I don't always like my friend's friends. I might know of them, and I might not get along with them at all. A few people suggested to me used to be friends, but if I was going to do anything with them.. I'd probably block them.

I wouldn't mind friend suggestions if there was a way for us to have likes/dislikes... and suggested friends were people I had 3+ things in common with (like for example: pokemon, mlp, hannibal)? Despite being a rather introverted person, if the suggestions told me this one user loves pokemon/mlp/AND hannibal I'd be 75% more likely to randomly comment that user than I would a friend of a friend I've never spoken to.

Just another insite to this, and one of the reasons I don't so much care for the current suggestion system |D; I wouldn't so much mind friend suggestions sticking around but I'd like to see them done a bit differently (not suggesting people you were once friends with but aren't anymore, no people with friend requests disabled, only active users, and ideally someone you have more in common with than one or two other users xD)

AH! I just added it to the op xD Since suggestions change with every refresh, there could be one "stickied" to the top if you have any upcoming friend birthday, (like it's suggesting you to go do something about it, haha) but yeah disabling the cake should let you out of that. Just like I think disabling friend requests should let you out of the whole suggested friend idea, even if it's just someone to strike up conversation. (Some people actually aren't interested in making friends, so!)

The whole likes/dislikes for a suggested people option is good, idk how easy it would be to make filters that would work like that but it'd be great. A long, looong time ago I used to use a chat client that allowed us to search people by geographic location/age range/some preset "what are things you like" choices and I felt like it helped lots in meeting new people. xD

I like these ideas. c: Birthdays and official groups / guides in particular would be great!

I'm not a fan of the current version because it only suggest art groups, CW groups or the old SubQRS group, none of which I'm likely to join. I don't get any other suggestions at all. :/ Some sort of filter system sounds good.

I also don't like that it tells me how many friends I have that are members of these groups, but not which ones - what's the point in that? Let me stalk my friends please.

Mind reading ftw -laughs-!

Yeah I was going to try pondering on that a bit more, like I know once upon a time subeta had an interests option but I'm not sure if bringing that back/reworking it in this manner would be worth the trouble. I guess another route would be the aspects of the site you use the most, maybe. Like tier 12 pets, x amount of pets, x amount of wearables" achievements, collections, restocks, vends, etc.

If I was going to have people suggested to me/friends of friends suggested to me it'd be nice to know that the people suggested might like the same aspects of subeta as I do xD; Not that friends can't be made anyways, but if I'm meeting people at seemingly random, I'd rather do it the old fashioned forum way.