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ender minyard • Edited

Hi Jérémie! I hope you're having a great day today.

Regarding the post:

  • The most important thing is your topic. If people aren't interested in your topic, they won't read the article. I personally have never heard of Gwion. If you want to introduce people to Gwion, explain what it is and why it matters. Don't assume people know about the topic or are interested.
  • The header image is blurry. Header images are optimized using compression that decreases image quality - you have to upload an extremely clear, large image for the header to look okay, from my experience at least.
  • Sentences in the article are missing periods. It seems low effort because of this. (Some people say my writing is low effort!😔 You can't always tell as a reader)
  • Effort =/= results. Virality is random. Sometimes my articles get hundreds of interactions, sometimes they get twelve. In the end, I hope you're writing for yourself. It's understandable to want an audience but you won't always have one.
  • Just a personal opinion: I wish the article was more visually appealing. I don't know how you would achieve it - maybe diagrams explaining how Gwion works? - but it's not nice to look at and that made me click off, combined with the grammar.

For some reason, cross-posting articles elsewhere has never worked for me. It might work for you though.

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Jérémie Astor

I probably overlooked the visual aspect, and yes, I can't assume people will know about Gwion!
Thank you.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

well if you make a post about Gwion, you want to

  • Introduce this topic to people
  • show up how to start with that
  • make a tutorial of some kind
  • showing a finished (partial or full) project
  • making a review of it.

If you make a review or a tutorial you must use Gwion because your target is people that already know what it is.
If you are about to introduce a topic you can say "Easy date management with javascript lib" instead on talking about "Date management with Dayjs" for adding some examples (actually I don't know about Gwion TBH)

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Jérémie Astor

Noted.

Actually this post was more about changing/proposing a new syntax for a programming language than about Gwion specifically. Maybe I could have used a more generic title to make clear that the post was a request of criticism about said syntax.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Hmm... Should I always period a title?

Anyways, I am not interested in Gwion, so I might not be tempted to click on it. It didn't appear in my feed in the first place, though.

I am no professional programmer, nor I am optimized for career building (like with React), though; so I cannot really tell.

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Jérémie Astor

(with an accurate documentation)
Yet Gwion might be a good fit for an hobbyist programmer wanting to make music/sound!

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ender minyard

That’s interesting! I’m looking forward to your next post :-)