See attached pole.

I noticed quite a few of you have write-ups on the Symbiostock network. Its awesome to watch everyone "owning" the project and having fun with it. I can also make a special SS widget  which can autolink to this page with an attractive icon.

As you know the theme auto-generates certain necessary pages (like UELA, Cart, etc).

Would you like a About Symbiostock page generated with verbage, links (download) etc? On this page we might also show a list of your network buddies as well as other custom functionality for this template.

If yes, please put your heads together on the info / verbage the page would include. What links, possibly the direct download link - just very helpful stuff to users and potentially other webmasters.

I'll design it for next update if its desired.

If others want it, i am ok with you including it, as long as there will be a disable for it.

I agree that there definitely should be a disable option..

If others want it, i am ok with you including it, as long as there will be a disable for it.


I still have mixed feelings about showing network buddies. I dont want to hurt anyones feelings by not including them. And i know that if i saw a list and no one had my name on it, i would be disappointed. I would like to hear other peoples thoughts. Maybe i am being too sensitive.

this is going to become a problem as we expand -- a closed network will have only 6 members, ever. but anyone who wants a larger network currently has no way of knowing who's linking to whom.  ideally we'd like to have a network where all members are an equal distance from each other (remember six degrees of separation?), so someone on A sees B,C,D and when they go to B they see A,F,G

without someway to know about linking, some people could end up ONLY linking out with no incoming links - bad for both their SEO and image searches

for a start we could just keep a list of who's linking to whom - but that info could also be generated directly from all installed sites -- there are some great network analysis programs out there that let you visualize quickly and experiment with linking that might be used to maximize traffic

Quote from: cclapper on April 15, 2013, 14:44

If others want it, i am ok with you including it, as long as there will be a disable for it.


I still have mixed feelings about showing network buddies. I dont want to hurt anyones feelings by not including them. And i know that if i saw a list and no one had my name on it, i would be disappointed. I would like to hear other peoples thoughts. Maybe i am being too sensitive.

this is going to become a problem as we expand -- a closed network will have only 6 members, ever. but anyone who wants a larger network currently has no way of knowing who's linking to whom.  ideally we'd like to have a network where all members are an equal distance from each other (remember six degrees of separation?), so someone on A sees B,C,D and when they go to B they see A,F,G

without someway to know about linking, some people could end up ONLY linking out with no incoming links - bad for both their SEO and image searches

for a start we could just keep a list of who's linking to whom - but that info could also be generated directly from all installed sites -- there are some great network analysis programs out there that let you visualize quickly and experiment with linking that might be used to maximize traffic

I think that might be difficult for niche sites like mine. There's not much point for me to connect with a lot of sites if their chosen niches don't complement mine. I like the idea of opting in if you want to.