For better or worse, Khan Academy has a feed of “hot” coding projects people have made with their JS-based editor. For the most part, it inspires and motivates

For better or worse, Khan Academy has a feed of “hot” coding projects people have made with their JS-based editor. For the most part, it inspires and motivates learners to create better projects, with the promise of recognition for their work. There’s a community culture where there are certain programmers are “famous” among their peers for consistently creating good programs. The only problem is that the few adult moderations that KA contracts have a poor understanding of this culture. Curating a community at all is difficult, and KA’s approach is limited to removing offensive or rude content, and otherwise letting the users run free. I have many stories I could tell as a gen Z who learned programming from KA’s Computer Programing section (remember, gen z is high school and college students these days). But the point is that you can’t add an algorithmic feed and let the users free. You have a responsibility to moderate that space, and I don’t blame Glitch for not wanting to deal with that.