Keeping up with the Joneses

Nov 7, 2006 at 2:22 PM
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We have a question for you: How do you stay in touch with the people in your neighborhood?

Vox gives you a number of ways to read what's new in your neighborhood and we'd love to hear which method you use most often. Are you a fan of the Neighborhood page, more of a VoxWatch person, do you use both, or do you have a different method altogether?

Is there a part of your Vox reading experience that you like best?

Filtering by date
Skimming through excerpts
Staying in your own theme
Something else...?

So how do you read Vox? Tell us in the comments. You can also read more about the Neighborhood and VoxWatch in our Knowledge Base.

-- Noam

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I suppose I do use my Neighborhood for catching up with Voxers the most. I also use the little preview of the most recent updates in my Neighborhood with the five that are listed on my own Vox page. Other than that, sometimes I randomly click any friends that appear on the main Vox page. I always feel so guilty if I can't get around to all of my neighbors... but I definitely try!

VoxWatch

VoxWatch Recent Activity and Overview, 100% of the time.

Filtering by date! Saves me time. =)

I also add their feed to bloglines.com

I read the RSS for my Neighbourhood via Bloglines most often during the day, then I'll come to the site in the evening and read VoxWatch.

Neighborhood. VoxWatch takes too many clicks to actually see the entry.

The neighborhood button is my best friend! And occasionally I will use the explore page and randomly visit blogs.

I typically use the neighborhood to do my daily reading, I find it to be the quickest way to get right into a post. I have a few RSS feeds that I use, but for the most part I am hanging around on my neighborhood all day.

I use the Neighborhood page mostly... it's my main Vox link in my browser. Then I head over to the Vox homepage to check out the QotD. If I still have time after that I hit the Explore page just to see what people are saying and to look for more people to add to my neighborhood!! I've not yet gotten into the Watch page. But I've also only tried it for short amounts of time.

A combination of glancing at the neighborhood sidebar to see if anyone has recently updated and excessive refreshing of the Neighborhood page. Actually I have two neighborhoods: mine and BoVox's. I use VoxWatch to keep an eye on Recent Activity to see if any of my comments have created further conversation threads.

I also have my RSS reader track my neighborhood, posts tagged "vox hunt" and posts tagged "qotd", but I find myself using the Vox site more.

I love, love, love the Neighborhood page. It's like reading the morning paper. I can click on that, read what my "peoples" are talking about, do some work, and then just click again and see who updated by looking at the boxes in the upper left hand corner. It's great! Please ... don't get rid of the Neighborhood page.

Thanks. :)

I use Home for qotd and recent activity. Sometimes I checkout Neighbourhood. VoxWatch is excellent, but I mainly check the comments and recent activities. But I mostly use RSS to track my neighbours. I have thousands of feeds that I read everyday, so it makes sense to just add it to my reader.

BTW, is there a feed for Recent Activities?

I use the "recent activity" tab in VoxWatch. It's useful for comment replies, which we are otherwise not notified of. Otherwise, the Neighbors link is the most useful, as everything is summarized in voxwatch and requires extra clicks.

VOX Watch...or the Neighbourhood.

I use the Neighborhood page. I like just browsing the posts by date. Thanks. :)

I've discovered the Neighborhood page and like it because I can read the posts without having to keep going back to my blog (which is what I was doing.) So much simpler! After I get used to doing this, I'll concentrate on what VoxWatch has to offer. I also visit the home page and have found some great reading via the favorites section.

Neighborhood for me. I guess it's most like the Friend's Page on LJ, so I'm used to it. And I also like being able to read the whole entry right away instead of going back and forth, as I believe you have to do if you use VoxWatch

I use the neighborhood page, too. VoxWatch just requires too much clicking to actually get to the entry. I also like to check up on the recent comments on the vox home page. I used to use the vox home page to see excerpts from my friends, but the moving, flashing thing that's on the bottom now makes me batty. So yeah, neighborhood for me.

I love the neighborhood page. VoxWatch confuses me with the number of selections and tidbots (rather than whole posts); neighborhood is simple and within my layout.

I use the Neighborhood page. I don't like VoxWatch, but sometimes I use it to catch up on comments.

Neighborhood is easiest for me to use, because it's so similar to my LJ friends page.

I mostly use the Neighborhood because it's analogous to LiveJournal's friends page, a system with which I have been familiar for over six years. VoxWatch is starting to grow on me, though, but more for the tag feeds than my neighbors' entries.

I shift between Home for recent actividad and VoxWatch for the executive summaries, and if a Neighbor (wunt you be mine, wunt you be mine...) appears on the sidebar of My Page I'm hot to see what contribution they have to make to my Daily Enter-truitional Requirement.

i use the neighborhood page since the neighbors' posts were taken off the main vox page. now i just go to the neighborhood page directly. consequently, though, i never see the QotD. :(

Neighborhood. I might use VoxWatch if I could figure out how to restrict it to just showing people in my neighborhood & what's happening with my Vox comments.

What I really want, of course, is also to have Recent Activity [on my Vox blog] and Subsequent Activity On Things I've Commented On like in Flickr (where I'm constantly flipping between those & my Contacts view which is analogous to my Neighborhood page). Might use VoxWatch if it was an overview of those three + the QotD,

I have a resident expert, Randy, in my neighborhood, but I'll ask all of you this.

I like to view recent posts from my Neighborhood. But, say I'm on page 3 of the Neighborhood posts, and I decide to comment on one of them. After I "post" my comment, it goes to a summary page for the person's blog. If I want to go back to Neighborhood to continue reading recent posts, it takes me to page 1. I notice if I hit the "back" button, instead of clicking "Neighborhood" that sometimes it deletes my comment (sometimes not).

It would be nice if there were a link that took you back where you were before you posted the comment. Did I miss it?

I use the RSS capability in Firefox to keep up with the posts that my neighbors make.

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I want cross comment feature,you have 4 blogging services under the SIxapart umbrella,i wish these four part could organically connected together,i mean,for example,i have livejournal account,and i can use my livejournal account comment on other three properties.so i don't have to set up every service provided by sixapart,but i can comment on each blog under sixapart.Thats it.

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I wish you guys think about this...It is a pretty good proposal:-)

I use the Neighborhood page. It's the quickest way to get to the whole post. VoxWatch only shows short snippets, and I'd rather get to the entries right away. On the other hand, VoxWatch lets me see new photos, etc. faster.

I use the Neighborhood page, but mostly out of habit. Trying to get into the habit of checking VoxWatch, though. Oh, how I wish there were an option for e-mail notification of comment replies. *sniffle*

The sidebar on my page to see if there's something new, the neighbourhood page. I've never actually used vox watch.

neighborhood page, definitely! :D
i never watch the vox watch.

i didn't know there was a knowledge base. vox watch confused me and just seemed like neighborhood, but clutteredly organized.

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I should probably RSS my friends but I kind of like Vox as a self-contained experience. I use the neighborhood page most often but "VoxWatch" is growing on me (although, it's not quite as intuitive for me for some reason).

I use neighborhood page and VoxWatch.
But I have a couple of suggestions.
Comments should be shown in tree-like structure, that means each reply placed right under original comment as derived brunch.
I'd like to get e-mail notifications about other people replies to my comment in another blogs (not mine). It's kind of hard to follow comments conversation.

Thanks a lot.

ну теперь осталось ждать официального ответа и мыслей на эту тему...

I would LOVE it if I knew if someone replied to a comment, I like the way in LJ it does this and its much easier to view the comment threads I think in LJ.

I use the Neighborhood page first, to check up on what people have written since my last visit. That's why I put them in my neighborhood, after all--because I was interested in what they were saying.
After that, I click "Home" to look at the Recent Activity--other blogs I posted on that might not be my neighbors, but I'm still interested in the conversations. If I still have time, I'll wander into "Explore" for randomness, or click on my neighbor's neighbors or recent activity--it's kind of like shopping with a friend ;)

Neighborhood + Recent Activity on the Vox home page. my ideal tool would combine the two so I could keep up with both my neighborhood's new posts as well as follow up on any conversation to which I've added a comment. Thanks for asking!

I use my neighborhood the most, but I also check out VoxWatch.

Neighbourhood. Been using LJ for a while and the Friends view is just too strong. ;)

i find it easiest to use neighborhood view, I like seeing my own layout, that's why i chose it!

i tend to just use my main vox page with peoples pictures and a few lines of their posts, as you hover over their picture. Voxwatch is too fiddly, i don't like it a lot.

I like to use the Neighborhood link to read my neighbors. I think VoxWatch is a little too busy and needs cleaner lines and organized a little better. I love what is has to offer because you can get plenty more information on there, but it needs to be modified.

I also like reading my Vox Homepage. It offers snippets of who wrote what and my recent activity as well as the this is good. I have seen some of my neighbors on there and it's pretty exciting.

I’m a big fan of the way ‘comments’ are tracked.

Sometimes I forget where or to whom I’ve posted a ‘comment’ and I lose track of the conversation.

Vox keeps me updates with these things, which is brilliant.

Also like the opening page where clips from all over are posted.

It’s great for newbies to get up to speed with the communities.

I guess it would be nice to have themes packaged up into a page such as the election or Global warming. People might tag a posting or picture as Global warming and these items would appear on a page? Sort of like groups, but with mixed media???

Sort of like a theme hub???

I use my Neighborhood for the most part, although the Vox Homepage is one of my own home tabs on Firefox and I'll often use it if I feel like surfing around the site. I find VoxWatch to be fussy and crowded, which is a pity as I can see where it's probably a better portal than even the Vox Homepage.

I use either VoxWatch or Neighbourhood, but I think it would be fantastic if the neighbourhood link could have a dropdown/pop-out for 'Family', 'Friends', (similar to when you roll over the the user icon) that will filter the entries accordingly.

I always go through my neighbourhood page.

i use browser bookmarks to track my comments in my neighbors' journals.
there's no other asset on Vox to do that, unfortunately. is there?

Recent Activity in VoxWatch. [Link]
This is covers all of your comments on all posts that you have commented on.

oh, it works!

thanks a lot!)

you know- i was just checking comments out in this post and noticed that the post asked a few "why" questions, including one about staying in theme... that's another thing about the Watch page that bugs me... leaving my theme!

neighborhood page all the way. ^_^

but please, PLEASE implement email notifications for comments left in neighbor's blogs that are replied to! i never know if my comment has been replied to and it takes too much effort to manually search out certain posts.

sweet

Mostly neighbourhood.

celena, read my comment to userfriendly. It's not too much searching.

why don't we ask for threaded comments on VOX?

I found good example of how the comments may be organized, on Multiply.COM.
Every user can choose either they would like to see comments threaded or chronological.
It's just a click, and you change the way comments show up.

I usually start from the home page, since the people I've marked as friends and family are the ones I care about the most then I check the neighborhood screen, since they have been known to say something interesting, at which point I go to the Voxwatch page and remain there, refreshing when I feel like it, until the next day. I kind of miss having the recently favorited posts on the home screen though. It was just so very convenient there.

The Japanese social networking site mixi uses something called 'ashiato' (footsteps). It shows which other mixi members have visited your page and when. I really like that and use it a lot. I meet a lot of new people that way and some become friends. It is a great way of interacting with the larger community and at the same time you can add new neighbors to your neighborhood.

I use the vox watch recent activity where I can find replies to comments that I've made and whether there have been any replies, whether the comments were made to those in my neighborhood or not. Then I check friends / family / neighbors. I also view the main page where I can see a few lines of my neighbor's most recent posts.

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