4 ms·
This idea is good, design is awesome. Here is a little feedback 1. It needs categories. I don't feel motivated to read most of the conversations but if those w
by Crazyontap 4y ago
This idea is good, design is awesome. Here is a little feedback
1. It needs categories. I don't feel motivated to read most of the conversations but if those were related to my interest i definitely would.
2. users should be able to add some bios, who are these people.
3. where it says you can start a conversation there could be a list of experts in my category i can send the question to, not popular people but people who have posted a lot in that category. this can be quora without the spam!
- daave 4y agoThanks for the feedback! 1. We're certainly looking into this, and other approaches to content discovery. 2. You can already add bios! Go to to your user page (link in the top-right), and it should be clear how to add a bio. 3. Thanks for the suggestion, we'll definitely think about this more.
- julianlam 4y agoMy personal opinion here. We (NodeBB) decided to go with categories from the get go because it was a form of hierarchy that worked well for YEARS, and you don't go breaking things that work fine. IIRC Discourse started without categories. The whole "bucket of messages" shebang. It did not go well, in the sense that I believe people kept asking for categories. There's something special about a curated list of folders to slot messages into, that tags and labels don't quite capture.
- nomel 4y agoOr to put it simply, most people are disinterested in most things. If you present them with most things, they will be mostly disinterested.
- julianlam 4y agoA little defeatist, but correct in its own way. I prefer to look at it as "each person is interested in different things, and they mostly don't overlap with any other one person, statistically".
- nomel 4y agoCurrently, the user is being presented with most things, so I think my framing matches the actual user perspective with better accuracy than a cheerier wording. ;)