Comments on: Now That I Have 200+ StumbleUpon Friends…

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:38:09 +0000

Dennis,

You are on the top of the list

By: Vlad

Vlad — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:38:09 +0000

Dennis,

You are on the top of the list

By: Florence Oregon

Florence Oregon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:42:20 +0000

Hello Vlad,

I am not sure if we are friends on StumbleUpon but I know you Stumbled my real estate website and I appreciated that. So when you make room after firing some of those folks I would be happy to have you added as a friend.

By: Florence Oregon

Florence Oregon — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:42:20 +0000

Hello Vlad,

By: Mark Blair

Mark Blair — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:27:38 +0000

I wonder if now that they are starting to add captchas that might open some things up. I suspect though that the friends limit might be, at least in part, an infrastructure problem that is harder to solve. It may be that some key part of their algorithm takes more processing time to work out the more friends one has. They may have determined that capping it at 200 is a good spot to keep everything under control.

By: Mark Blair

Mark Blair — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:27:38 +0000

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:10:10 +0000

So maybe they can award users in some way. Let say if you reach a certain level they can allow you to ad additional 200 friends and so forth???

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:10:10 +0000

So maybe they can award users in some way. Let say if you reach a certain level they can allow you to ad additional 200 friends and so forth???

By: Mark Blair

Mark Blair — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:47 +0000

@Vlad — Hmmm… maybe StumbleUpon has 4 stealth friends they are sneaking in there to keep an eye on you

Actually, I’ve seen this before and I wonder if there are times when their database gets out of whack when removing friends, where a friend gets removed but sometimes you don’t get the credit.

@Andy – What they really need is an interface solution on this if they won’t raise the limits. There should be a little alert that pops up and lets the new fan know that you are maxed out and that friending them is going to involve some juggling… Maybe let us customize the message: “Hi! I’m maxed out right now….”

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:52:28 +0000

I go through every now and then – there are still 2 people who are not active and reciprocal that Stay on the list anyway, Mark from 45n5 and AgentSully.

I actually choose people based upon what they submit more than anything else, but that 200 limit is a pain. I am up to almost 800 fans on Stumbleupon and I would guess I know 600 of them by their avatar and other online activity.

I have had people quite upset when I don’t friend them back.