Hey Hashnoders, Just like you I love this community too. I have been a lurker for quite some time and like to consume information more than produce! ;)
What are the 5 things you think are missing on Hashnode today. Let's help the Hashnode team take some actionationable decisions. 👍
I wish the administrators/moderators to start to respond to users feedback. I wrote several times through "feedback" and Twitter DM and my messages were ignored. This is unprofessional.
There is the "Request Feature" link ( -> //hashnode.com/feature-requests ) in the bottom right pop-up menu behind the question mark item (it is easy to miss!). You can voice your requests centrally there and vote on other's requests.
I'm still missing an API to integrate my personal site with Hashnode.
I also, as a part of the API, miss the feature that I can write an article here, but show it on my website with comments, but to comment you need to go to Hashnode to login of course including some branding.
I'm not sure, since I've seen several ideas implemented already.
If I remember correctly the idea was to have a conversational community. So you are allowed to have meta questions and encouraged to ask generic questions.
Todd you mentioned the politics, like "the gender issue" which afaik was one of your debut answer and a little heat is okay to me and I'm from Austria we're not known to enjoy conflicts (unless we can start another world war and blame the germans for it ... ;P)
To me Hashnode is kinda a mix between HN/ quora / SO / medium / reddit and I personally like that.
That said, I don't need a lot of things, I don't have strong visions about hashnode, this is something that has to evolve naturally to me.
Like the hashnode originals .... which I still have to deliver if I finally got 1 week time to write it ... :/ Sandeep Panda at this point I wanna officially apologize for missing my deadlines.
The problem is what is it we want to achieve here ? I personally just wanna read interesting articles (HN), help other people (SO), talk about peripheral IT stuff (reddit), ask generic tech related opinions (quora). Read some Techblogs (medium)
And you actually deliver that all to me + AMAs (which are really nice) ... not as intense as the other platforms but still. You now should have enough data and experience to see where you guys want to go with us, because in the end we're all here because you do a great job providing this platform to us.
One thing I strongly agree with Todd is the other nodes, I love programming in a multitude of languages and topics. I guess it takes time to grow such a community and to reach a critical mass in a specific node.
Anuj Sharma I'm not even sure I like personal messaging but on the other hand maybe it helps to improve ? I like that conversations are done in a feed like way and not private. It invites others to share, the same goes with blocking this all moves to a filter-bubble system and I didn't quit facebook to have a similar system in place here. (just my opinion I know)
Sorry in the end there is nothing I miss here but I don't want to promote myself or challenge the platforms mentioned above.
Oh one plaything could be -> exploringdata.github.io/vis/programming-languages… where you could actually see what's going on in the different nodes in a graphical way it's more explorative and less "list/article" structure like.... a plaything and how I like to perceive data as graphs and maps ;D ...
1- Direct Message (DM) to any community members.
2- Ghost ban/block
3- Login only Github or Email (Remove FB / G+ / twitter)
4- Smiley enable in all text fields
5- Followed user can see the last login of follow user .
6- Any body can write the "Hashnode Originals". Will be approve by admin.
I am glad to be part of great community. Thanks Hashnode.
I want to see more developers asking technical questions. I think the platform itself is fantastic right now and I just feel like we need more content, especially for some of The nodes. Right now, I feel like we're strong with JavaScript-based web development and related technologies but some of the nodes are quite neglected.
To me, this indicates that the platform is great but it needs to be marketed to other audiences. I've tried to aid in this by mentioning the site in a very positive way to developers that I know. I have this hidden feeling that we could somehow pull a lot of users over here from some niche community like embedded or infosec, somewhere that needs a fresh new change in a QA community.
The second thing is like to see is more technical questions. I'm noticing a trend of "how do you feel about xyz?" Type of questions and to be honest, I feel like they may be mucking up the content quality of the site. Now, I want to make it very clear that I have been guilty of writing those type of questions too because it's tempting coming off of stack overflow where that's not a possibility but at the same time, I think we need to steer the community and be careful because just because Hashnode allows subjective questions, doesn't mean we need to turn it into Facebook, if that make sense...
For example, the questions themselves can still be technical but they can have a subjective piece, or subjective answers can be freely posted... this is entirely different from "what do you think of the political situation in web development right now?" Kind of questions. Those kind of questions are tempting to ask but unfortunately don't produce much value and sometimes even lead to heated conversation.
One last consideration is who we send here. The site is very noob friendly of course, but I've been hesitant to market it to giant noob communities because IMO we need to have the proper ratio of experienced devs to noobs or Lee that can also affect site content quality.
That's it for me. This means that you guys have done a fantastic job with the platform. Whenever anyone asks me for a good example of a node or react site done well, I send them here.
Amanda Fitch
A small daily challenge would be cool. I come here to learn about the latest and greatest tools and techniques.