#1965 - More default messaging apps and social networks in CPFs
| Identifier | #1965 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | More default messaging apps and social networks in CPFs |
| Status | Completed |
| Tags |
Type: External social media integration (custom) |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | core_cns |
| Description | CPFs to add:
Amazon (Wishlist) Bandcamp Dailymotion Discord Dropbox Flattr Github Hacker News Minds Patreon PayPal Quora Slashdot Snapchat SoundCloud Spotify Stack Exchange Stack Overflow StumbleUpon Telegram Tumblr Twitch Vimeo YouTube VK Baidu tieba Sina Weibo TencentWeibo Line Viber QZone PlayStation Network Xbox Live Steam Steemit DTube Mastodon Diaspora (Digital wallet, e.g. Bitcoin) CPFs have icons defined, these should be shown in CNS_MEMBER_PROFILE_ABOUT.tpl (likely will be a DB change to add icon support to CPFs). It should be possible to say whether a CPF shows in the main "about" section, or any one of the links section. This will also need a DB change to CPFs. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Additional information | This is covered on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_yaJeGzDIsxq33I7Wg9I-lTBDk3YS22WPBwJ971v5tI
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| Related to | #2020 - Big syndication expansion and unification (idea staging issue) |
| Funded? | No |
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https://ok.ru/
https://vk.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VKontakte#/media/File:Most_popular_social_networking_sites_by_country.svg
So I wouldn't deny it's popularity, just it doesn't meet the criteria, and I think the criteria I've picked are the right ones.
PlayStation Network
Xbox Live
Steam
Plus I decided we will do VK, and some other very regional networks (VK, Baidu tieba, Sina Weibo, TecentWeibo, Line, Viber, WeChat, QZone).
I have been helping out a Russian user recently, and it made me think a bit. We're not all going to be one world socially - Russia and China and Japan all have very segregated Internet services, for cultural/political reasons. They're really another world in some ways. If we want to promote Composr as a platform for people in these countries, rather than either Western-centric or global, and if we want to keep translators happy, we should really do it by number of users.
https://www.rank2traffic.com/last.fm
https://www.rank2traffic.com/spotify.com
https://www.rank2traffic.com/soundcloud.com
https://www.rank2traffic.com/bandcamp.com
You can see it had "Internet phenomena" traffic, but has been in massive decline, and even Bandcamp is now bigger (and growing). Plus Bandcamp is a special case as I want to help Composr users sell things more easily (same idea as having Patreon links, Amazon wishlist links, PayPal links).
Okay, you clearly have a point but I've used it since 2006 and I still think it's great.
Let's just say, they've probably got more money than me if they've got £4.36 :P
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/04569646-last-fm-limited
Their worth on balance sheet is -46mil, and they've been increasing debts of about 2mil every year.
CBS is only keeping them alive because they hope either:
a) someone else will take it on to cover most of their losses
b) it will suddenly become popular again
c) it's user base can be shuffled into making some hot new service take off
d) nobody wanting to face facts / internal politics / embarrassment
e) a couple million a year isn't enough for CBS to make a decision on it (they make $13590mil each year)
Probably a combination of those things.
Steemit
DTube (built on Steemit)
These are very new, innovative, with great traction, and are solving some of the problems of sites like Twitter and YouTube. So we'll include them.
I didn't actually know of Mastodon - it implements ActivityPub, has some traction, and effectively deprecates a whole host of other fragmented projects
Still, Diaspora, Mastodon, and Steemit each have limited users. I'm only adding them here as non-commercial projects I want us to give them a bit of a leg-up - and they are more likely to get traction over an extended period as there is passion and social progress behind them.
I'm hoping Diaspora and Steemit both implement ActivityPub, which is a new W3C standard that comes from Mastodon's family tree. Then we have all these alternative systems moving toward being unified.
Glad you added DTube due to the many issues YouTube is experiencing (including lots of unhappy content creators).
Moving off-topic, other media (galleries, downloads, etc) being optionally offered as embeddable content would be great for those who wish to provide their content to others (viral videos for instance).