While it hasn't been fully released to the fresh air, we want to make /connect work for this purpose.
With the built in follow relationships, tag relationships, preferences, as well as navigation between posts and chat potentially, we really think having chat as a native component of the community is the best longterm bet. (Not that we couldn't possibly integrate other chat channels).
I can't say nobody can create IRC/Discord/etc. but we want to lean in on our own fully open source platform chat space in the future. We'll give it another cycle of our attention to really let it shine in the near future.
/connect sounds really exciting.
I hope it is ensured that the chat does not cannibalize the website. I think it's important to make sure the chat extends the Dev.to page, enriches it and does not replace it.
If dedicated chat is really necessary then it should be intigrated into the page (could the DEV.to page become more real-time to make the chat obsolete?, reduce the hurdles for writing articles and comments can have the same effect ).
For me, the Dev.to concept stands between Medium.com and Twitter.
I am curious if the "warm community" or the "multiplatform unicorn glossy articles" will win the concept fight.
While it hasn't been fully released to the fresh air, we want to make /connect work for this purpose.
With the built in follow relationships, tag relationships, preferences, as well as navigation between posts and chat potentially, we really think having chat as a native component of the community is the best longterm bet. (Not that we couldn't possibly integrate other chat channels).
I can't say nobody can create IRC/Discord/etc. but we want to lean in on our own fully open source platform chat space in the future. We'll give it another cycle of our attention to really let it shine in the near future.
/connect sounds really exciting.
I hope it is ensured that the chat does not cannibalize the website. I think it's important to make sure the chat extends the Dev.to page, enriches it and does not replace it.
If dedicated chat is really necessary then it should be intigrated into the page (could the DEV.to page become more real-time to make the chat obsolete?, reduce the hurdles for writing articles and comments can have the same effect ).
For me, the Dev.to concept stands between Medium.com and Twitter.
I am curious if the "warm community" or the "multiplatform unicorn glossy articles" will win the concept fight.
I didn't even know /connect existed! That is pretty much what I was looking for, if it had a chat for everyone!
Yes. It seems a bit under marketed ;)