Comments on: Beware of “feature creep” http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/blog/2010/03/22/social-networking-feature-creep/ Tips, resources, and strategies for starting and marketing your own social networking site. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eugene Sutula http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/blog/2010/03/22/social-networking-feature-creep/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Eugene Sutula Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:33:59 +0000 http://www.startasocialnetwork.com/?p=476#comment-115 That's a really good point. As a 3rd party developer for SocialEngine I've seen a lot of times clients who make mistake by overloading their community with features. When new users visit their community they don't know where to participate. Often there are plugins with similar functionality and purpose. For example, if there are forum, groups, questions and answers installed at the same time - user just don't know where to start to ask some newbie question. I'm mentioned this issue in our blog as well http://webhive.com.ua/blog/?p=17 That’s a really good point. As a 3rd party developer for SocialEngine I’ve seen a lot of times clients who make mistake by overloading their community with features. When new users visit their community they don’t know where to participate. Often there are plugins with similar functionality and purpose. For example, if there are forum, groups, questions and answers installed at the same time – user just don’t know where to start to ask some newbie question.

I’m mentioned this issue in our blog as well
http://webhive.com.ua/blog/?p=17

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