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 ...