I agree with this, but after you have the framework to do this, I think, the more difficult part is how to present it.
Say you create a news site. You place the obvious largest sections in the obvious places, like the sorting options "new" and "hot." Now you want to accomodate all your user-created sections too. Where to put this?
You could create a cyclic box that just grabs particularly active user sections, but for oldtimers this would be inefficient. You could create a friends section kind of box that displays links to friend pages for logged in users, but that is potentially confusing and would compete with whatever top level links you initially have.
I believe it isn't so hard technically for reddit to open up user-created subreddits, but how to integrate it into the UI is what's hard. If you have a good solution, I'd like to hear, for the obvious reason. :)
Say you create a news site. You place the obvious largest sections in the obvious places, like the sorting options "new" and "hot." Now you want to accomodate all your user-created sections too. Where to put this?
You could create a cyclic box that just grabs particularly active user sections, but for oldtimers this would be inefficient. You could create a friends section kind of box that displays links to friend pages for logged in users, but that is potentially confusing and would compete with whatever top level links you initially have.
I believe it isn't so hard technically for reddit to open up user-created subreddits, but how to integrate it into the UI is what's hard. If you have a good solution, I'd like to hear, for the obvious reason. :)