Syed Fazle Rahman

It might sound more dramatic that I meant to. I'm very happy for your work here, but I feel it's not always in the right direction. The unity or community feeling is what I think your main advantage is, so that's an important key feature for you. Also you are fast to reply to threads such as this, means you are very connected (not to but) with the community (with is more important than to - two ways) 👍

About Discord, it's always very hard because it's not how much you write, but in general people should be involving for it to work, in my opinion. Not just posting about other stuff they make.

Just remember we are many people from many parts of the world, and here where I'm from it's normal to be critical without meaning anything negative, so I don't hope we interpret it in a completely different way. My experience from traveling a lot is that interpretation is often where misunderstandings happens.

Syed Fazle Rahman I've read through your suggestions. I've added the feature/bug report page as a Bookmark in my browser, I will do my best to utilize the new hashtag headings (community channels) as well.

I do look forward to the badge feature and so I will refrain from making any large feature requests for now in favor of supporting that feature to be well-developed.

That being said, I do have a couple questions for you, and then I want to leave some feedback related to Emil Moe's comments before closing. I was about to ask my questions here but I decided to ask in a new thread so that it is properly categorized for maximum visibility.

As far as comments go, first and foremost, I too have noticed that you (Syed) are very attentive to the site and I truly do feel that user feedback is important, which is awesome. It's clear to me that you are working very hard Syed, which raises my level of respect and appreciation for Hashnode and your work to a new level. These things are important to recognize; we cannot just talk about things we don't like, but we need to spend even more attention recognizing the things that we do like and the things that people do which stand out and have a large positive impact.

Syed, your positivity, hard work and dedication stand out like a sore thumb more than any other staff member I know of on any other developer website I've been to, so thank you immensely for that and I am glad to be here!

As far as feedback goes from my perspective, I think I captured the tone well in my original post, but I also want to point out that I like the new design and the site performs very fast for me, aside from a occasional hiccups within the first half second or so of the page load. If I had to summarize the "different feel" of the website, I would agree with Emil in that it seems that the site originally focused on Q&A and has shifted focus to general content production almost like a "Medium for Developers."

General content production is not bad in any way, and I enjoy and appreciate the blogging platform entirely. However, I do think consideration could be made to either have a Q&A interface with the website which prioritizes Q&A, and a "blog-reading" interface which prioritizes "stories." You guys kinda sorta already have that if i go to the menu and hit "Discussions" or "Stories," but it seems inconsistent. I have another tab open right now and I clicked "Discussions" and the top posts are not necessarily questions/Q&A format. In fact, if I click the "Recent" organizer instead of the "Popular" one, this seems to improve the situation a bit...

I'm concerned that the focus is shifting from individual question/answer content quality to somewhat of a content popularity contest. This could work, but it does change the feel of the site a bit and I could see it as being more intimidating for newbies to ask questions. I'm also sort of lost between what channels, nodes, and tags are so I'm going to create another question in /n/hashnode to clear that up for me and others who may have the same question.

Thanks for the nice words, Todd. Feedback like yours motivates the whole team to do better every day. :)

We have worked very hard to get stories to the system. There were days when Hashnode used to get only Q&A and no stories. Developer stories are an important part of any developer-related website. In a way, we consider that as a success.

Hashnode is going through a phase where we are learning how to best showcase both stories and discussions on the platform. We are constantly improving and making design changes frequently. Yours and Emil Moe's feedback are really important and we'll have internal discussions on it very soon.