Hi everyone! I've been thinking a lot recently about sites like Hashnode (and Medium, Hacker News, etc) and I realized that one of the unique qualities of Hashnode is that it can (at least has the potential to) allow you to use it as a destination site for all your development "presence". Meaning you could post links, articles, and "blog" posts and have HashNode be the place folks look for "you" online. I'm really curious how 1) other folks use Hashnode and 2) what the founders envision for it now and in the future.
I want to give you a couple of quick pointers to past discussions on Hashnode.
To answer your question on "using" Hashnode; here is a great discussion where awesome Hashnoders like yourself, have great responses on how they get value out of Hashnode, and great pieces of advice on how you should too.
And as for the founders’ vision; you can visit this discussion where Sandeep, and Fazle talk about their motivation behind Hashnode, and the path it's headed on.
Medium = blog posts
Hacker News = blog posts by other people related to all things tech
Hashnode = Cross between Facebook / Medium / Stackoverflow and any other IT related subjects (serverfault comes to mind)
Though I posted a "story" once speculating on happenings at Apple and it was deleted as off-topic so maybe not so much FB as SO (ie: moderated)
I don't consider it to be a place people find me on - for me, at least, that's LinkedIn.
(I feel I can speak to this) Any community eventually expands outside of it's initial scope based on how users use the system and what features they want. Failure to do so could mean failure of the idea / system. IE: if your (the site) not growing with your users, they'll find somewhere that does. Hacker News is the exception to this (of those listed) as I think they just don't care, haha - I've been on hacker news for years and they only ever make minor changes. Not that it needs a lot, but it could stand for a major feature improvement.
@triptych @sandeep I'd also love to see hashnode have a section for more technical questions, like SO but not as harsh. LIke this
Hi @triptych ,
As @saiki suggested, do take a look at this discussion. It has many useful answers.
Many developers say that Hashnode is awesome because of nice people and lack of spammers. So, to answer your concern about moderation, I would say that it's very important to be alert all the time so that people don't spam the community. There are users who just keep sharing their own (less quality, clickbait) links and there are marketers who share totally irrelevant stuff. This is where moderation comes to picture. We would like to have content that is directly or indirectly related to software development. To enforce this, we have put together a set of guidelines and we always make sure you have quality content for reading. Apart from this we don't have any other strict moderation rules. We welcome all types of developers from all over the world to come here and have good conversations.
We are also working on upgrading the "nodes" (scheduled to go live this weekend) so that awesome people like you can manage all the different sub communities inside Hashnode and play key roles in keeping the community healthy.
To answer the last two questions :
From the feedback we received: Developers mostly use Hashnode everyday to keep themselves up-to-date and relevant. For many, it's a part of the morning routine to come and check Hashnode so that they don't miss anything important.
Our broader vision with Hashnode is that we would like to connect developers of all expertise levels and help them share and consume knowledge in a better way. From Day 1, we have put focus on creating a conversational community, rather than a traditional Q&A website, and we would love to take this vision forward.
Hope this helps! If you have any feedback, please feel free to email me. :)