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Comment by noelsequeira | Hacker News Reader

Here's mine.

Needed: A multi-select that lets me decide what Circles serve as default sources for my Stream.

tl;dr To let me cut out the noise without the fear of missing out.

Why: My "Following" Stream is essentially a Twitter echo chamber, and most of the folks that post here are really prolific. This drowns out any posts from friends & family, and I have to make an explicit click to view each of these streams. For instance, right now, Robert Scoble is hogging most my Stream real estate.

I'd like to select "Friends" + "Family" + "Acquaintances" as the default sources for my Stream. I don't mind clicking on the "Following" filter to peruse this specific Stream every now and then, just like I dip into Twitter. I don't want these posts, however, to dominate my default Stream. And I don't want to have to delete my "Following" Circle to make this happen.

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Absolutely.

It would be quite easy to do UI-wise, you can already select either "Stream" for the whole thing or an individual Circle. Just let us click on multiple Circles at once.

Then add a setting somewhere to multi-select your default stream Circles.

Some of the other things i'd like to see (or should I split this into a separate post?)...

- Make Sparks work more like reader. Sparks has HUGE potential but right now I have no idea how it pulls content and from what sources. It doesn't seem to update much though. Let us do an initial search for content for the keyword, but then also add RSS feeds to each keyword so it can be our one-stop-shop for perusing new content each day (both from the RSS feeds we added, and from the default Spark query engine). Format it a bit more like Reader too, title + expandable box for content.

- Bring in our Buzz posts as "Public" posts on Plus. What's going to happen to Buzz anyway? I really liked it, but surely it's deprecated now with public Plus posts?

THIS! It's only been a day for me but I'm already noticing that people I don't know are own my stream. It's ok to click to a specific circle but I would love if it defaulted to people I actually know and have to seek out the following.

https://plus.google.com/115440827534646207947/posts/DKsX7mi2...

Isn't that how it works right now? You select the circles you want once, and then it remembers them. You can still remove any of them on each post.

I believe noelsequeira is referring to the stream, which is what Facebook calls the "news feed".

It would be nice to be able to set relative ratios for how often posts from different circles show up, to result in varying frequency of the top or recent posts from each circle.

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