Are Stumbleupon Changes Still A Mystery?
We tackled a little while ago the changes that may happen to StumbleUpon and the way friends and subscribers would change in a previous post. Now it becomes a reality; SU launched its new changes that has been a while in the making. Stumbleupon, finally, improved the way you can make Friends or follow another member’s Stumbles.
Yesterday, SU presented a nice surprise to all its members. You can now friend over 200 people on Stumble, know your subscribers and subscribe to people with interesting stumbles, enjoy the new look of adding friends feature, know the percentage of every user who match your interests, as well as get a notification message to let you know that someone has requested your friendship and you are free to accept or ignore his/her friendship.
All these changes seem interesting and worth a try, but the question now is that “Are SU changes still a mystery, despite the official release?” Will they cause unpredictable revolution in SU community?
we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to enhance the stumbles they get from their subscribers by subscribing to other stumblers’ favorites, who really introduce something valuable and related to their interests. At the same time we may find some stumblers who will use the new service to add an endless number of friends to their list just to enlarge their friends circle and become able to share their own posts and business with larger number of stumblers, without caring whether they will get some useful stumbles from their friends (subscribers) or not!
In our previous post “Will The Removal of SU 200 Friends Limit Really Work?”, we were just predicting the future and wanted to know your opinions, whether this new feature will add something to SU or not. But now, after being launched officially and becoming a fact, what do you think about the new feature? Can it benefit you by any means? Do you now enjoy something different while stumbling? Or would you prefer to restore the old system again, and just deal with your limited number of friends? All of these questions really need some answers.

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September 25th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I think they have counteracted the potential of users adding more friends to get more hits by doing something to the algorithm of friends thumbing up your sites because I have noticed a distinct decrease in the number of hits from posts which have a high number of thumbs up, posts which usually would have brought me 600+ stumbleupon hits are now bringing less than 200, essentially as it’s only ‘friends’ who have thumbed up!!!