If you haven’t seen missions on 5 Blocks Out yet then you should check them out. Missions help you build a list of places and tips with help from other people, and then vote on the results. In the “Queen of Poutine” example below Pam is looking for advice on great places to get poutine in Toronto. Anyone can add suggestions to her mission, write brief tips, and vote places up and down.
Until now the onus has been on mission contributors to check back on the site once in a while to see what’s changed. Remembering to do this is kind of a pain, so we’ve made it a little easier: you can now “follow” a mission, just as you can follow what other community members on 5 Blocks Out are up to.
Here’s how it works: First, find the mission you’re interested in, and open it up. Second, click the “Follow” button to start following. From then onwards, updates on things happening within the mission will show up on your My Stuff page and in your email newsletter.
Click the "Follow" button to start following activity in a mission
As the owner of a mission you’re already signed up to follow its activity stream. We also turn on following automatically for anyone who contributes to a mission by adding a tip, adding a place, or voting a place up or down. Lastly, whenever somebody new follows a mission we send a quick email notification to the mission’s owner. (You can control follower notifications via My Stuff > Preferences > Notifications.)
What do you think? Useful? What can we do better? Let us know.