Ok, one of the major, and we’re guessing more controversial changes we’re making is to remove the ability for users to create their own topics.
I’ll take some time to explain why…
Frankly, the vast majority of the topics people were creating were one of two things - either duplicates of topics we already had, or ‘my favourite somethings’.
We hold our hands up; they’re both our fault. In the first case the thing that was supposed to tell you if similar lists already existed on Ditto was, well, a bit rubbish, and in the second case, we obviously didn’t explain ourselves well enough. If you wanted to create a list of ‘My favourite movies’, the idea was you voted on ‘The best movies ever’, thereby creating a list of your favourites whilst at the same time contributing to an overall list of everyone’s favourite movies.
The new site - hopefully - is much more explicit about this. You can read much more about our reasons here.
We think by making it much clearer how to create lists of ‘my favourite movies’, we’ve removed the confusion that was behind well over half of our user-created lists.
Now we don’t want to stop people creating new topics, but now, if you’ve got a good idea for a new topic, please email us at feedback@ditto.net. If you do have a good idea for something that’s not there already, we can create it for you (you’ll still get the credit), or possibly even give you special admin rights to create it yourself.
Thanks for listening. Any moans, questions or complaints, leave ‘em below, or if you prefer privacy, email us at feedback@ditto.net.