Hot post? I might disagree, but you now get to know the feel of the post and the reason it’s featured prior to clicking on it.

If you ever stop and wonder what on earth tooticators were thinking when they featured a certain post on toot, wonder no more, they thought it’s hot/exciting/interesting/funny/etc. At the present time it appears only in the what’s tooting section, but I guess it will make its way to the reads.

Nice, but very Web 1.0. What i’d like to see is “power to the people”, the essence of web 2.0; where nothing ever depends on one given person’s opinion or mood. An example of this would be newsvines or diggs seeding and sinking, where enough votes should change a mood or sink the post altogether. But that might require user registration, which I hear is in the works.

I can’t speak much of aesthetics, but i believe the mood icons should be of the same size and at the same location, possibly the very bottom of the feed.

On the other hand a nice feature that toot has implemented is click count (example:http://itoot.net/GoRead.php?id=418), this should give tooticators the idea on which posts visitors like without voting, those 3 and 5 toots still confuse me.

Another thing I almost missed is the barely noticeable archive and RSS feed at the bottom of toot reads. Reads can now be syndicated, what’s tooting is not included, which makes me question the entire purpose of that segment.

The feed lacks moods and categories, something the toot team should work on. For instance I would like to get the hot + technology feeds categories in the feed should be able to solve this. There’s no RSS feed for tootstream at least non that I know of, but you can always import the toot OPML into your aggregator.

Nice additions, but still a very long and tough way ahead. But I bet those guys have many tricks up their sleeve. I look forward to the next version of toot.

Note: What’s with the non-standard feed icon?

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