I agree completely, Bobby. This general issue is one of the core problems we are trying to solve in the long run with dev.to. Not all at once, but in the long run. I really love Slack for some cases, but have totally given up on it for the big OSS projects, which also means I don't always keep up with what I should be. Email news lists have always been just as bad for me. Really hard to follow and high implied barrier to contribute.
Our comment threads right now are sort of hybrid between threaded and chronological. They are generally threaded, but the threads only go 4 deep and then they become chronological. I see it as a nice compromise, but it's also something we've left open to tweaking in the future.
I say this with a degree of humbleness. We're far from being the solution, but I've personally identified this as a big problem for some time.
Out of self-awareness, I have to mention this:
But I see it as a challenge. Gotta do something with my 9-5, might as well try to tackle a fundamental problem in our industry.
This is a great outlook to have. I think I treat StackOverflow a little like a discussion board; though there are times I'd like to ask a question and be able to discuss back and forth, rather than be constrained by the binary question/answer format.
I know the conversations/extended discussion mechanism in SO handles this somewhat, but I always feel like that's hidden in out of the way.
I've never personally been able to get over the hump in finding value in SO other than the Q/A as a resource. I see that as an indication that there's room for a different approach. The last thing we are trying to do is challenge that platform head-on for Q/A, but there is so much more developers need and trying to squeeze it into Stack Overflow's general mantra has seemed a bit square peg/round hole to me.
I really love what you're doing with dev.to, Ben! Thank you and the whole team for taking the challenge.
I must confess that dev.to as a community platform slipped my mind when I was writing this article, but since I was talking about specific communities around a certain product, I hope you don't mind it that much :)
I must confess that dev.to as a community platform slipped my mind when I was writing this article
We're new and I don't expect us to be mentioned alongside the established platforms that are way bigger than us. Most of our potential is yet to be realized, so I never feel snubbed when folks don't include us yet. We'll just keep plugging away at the problem.
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I agree completely, Bobby. This general issue is one of the core problems we are trying to solve in the long run with dev.to. Not all at once, but in the long run. I really love Slack for some cases, but have totally given up on it for the big OSS projects, which also means I don't always keep up with what I should be. Email news lists have always been just as bad for me. Really hard to follow and high implied barrier to contribute.
Our comment threads right now are sort of hybrid between threaded and chronological. They are generally threaded, but the threads only go 4 deep and then they become chronological. I see it as a nice compromise, but it's also something we've left open to tweaking in the future.
I say this with a degree of humbleness. We're far from being the solution, but I've personally identified this as a big problem for some time.
Out of self-awareness, I have to mention this:
But I see it as a challenge. Gotta do something with my 9-5, might as well try to tackle a fundamental problem in our industry.
This is a great outlook to have. I think I treat StackOverflow a little like a discussion board; though there are times I'd like to ask a question and be able to discuss back and forth, rather than be constrained by the binary question/answer format.
I know the conversations/extended discussion mechanism in SO handles this somewhat, but I always feel like that's hidden in out of the way.
I've never personally been able to get over the hump in finding value in SO other than the Q/A as a resource. I see that as an indication that there's room for a different approach. The last thing we are trying to do is challenge that platform head-on for Q/A, but there is so much more developers need and trying to squeeze it into Stack Overflow's general mantra has seemed a bit square peg/round hole to me.
I really love what you're doing with dev.to, Ben! Thank you and the whole team for taking the challenge.
I must confess that dev.to as a community platform slipped my mind when I was writing this article, but since I was talking about specific communities around a certain product, I hope you don't mind it that much :)
We're new and I don't expect us to be mentioned alongside the established platforms that are way bigger than us. Most of our potential is yet to be realized, so I never feel snubbed when folks don't include us yet. We'll just keep plugging away at the problem.