Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

March 5, 2013

Addictive Topic Map Forums

Filed under: Interface Research/Design,Marketing,Topic Maps,Users — Patrick Durusau @ 10:37 am

They exist in theory at this point and I would like to see that change. But I don’t know how.

Here are three examples of addictive forums:

Y Hacker News: It has default settings to keep you from spending too much time on the site.

Facebook: Different in organization and theme from Y Hacker News.

Stack Overflow: Different from the other two but also qualifies as addictive.

There are others but those represent a range of approaches that have produced addictive forums.

I’m not looking for a “smoking gun” sort of answer but some thoughts on what lessons these sites have for creating other sites.

Not just for use in creating a topic map forum but for creating topic map powered information resources that have those same characteristics.

An addictive information service would quite a marketing coup.

Some information resource interfaces are better than others but I have yet to see one I would voluntarily seek out just for fun.

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