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Care to provide a bit more on thingist? I clicked through and at first glance have a few ideas of what it is but not totally sure what I would use it for. Without an about page or any precursor I would not sign up for something on a whim. Interested in checking it out though!

Also side note: The bottom pagination links do not work for me. I can click next page and get next page but if I select a number be it 2, 3, or 75 I get an empty page?



Sure :)

Thingist is kindof like status updates, but with more context (and more available space [You can include a description of why you're posting it). Instead of a big bucket called "status", you separate things into different lists.

For instance, I have a list called "Good Bars in Phoenix" (http://thingist.com/t/list/65/)

or a list called "Adventures in Nerdery", which is mostly projects I'm working on (http://thingist.com/t/list/139/)

There are some global lists like "songs I like" (which get added to people by default when they register) (http://thingist.com/t/global/38/)

The example for a use case I always use is finding music that you've posted into the internet. I've been posing songs I like into facebook for 5 years, but as far as I know there isn't a simple way of pulling them back out.

Thingist [tries to] solve that.

But it's more than just status, at least it's a new approach to it. Somebody joined a few days ago, and started posting "things on the menu at a nerd themed restaurant". This resulted in neat sort-of back and forth between us: ( http://thingist.com/t/global/2944/)

(also: fixed the pagination buttons, oops)




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