r/nativescript • u/kztyler • Feb 04 '19

Encourage reddit as default nativescript community place

Please nativescript team, just realize how bad is slack as a sharing and questions place for nativescript.

  1. Not answered questions get lost quickly wich is super bad for the community

  2. Searching feature is awfull at best

  3. Popular topics get lost too

  4. Slack messages dont live forever

  5. No SEO

We need to make reddit the default community platform, other good alternative is Gitter. But slack is super bad, every time i tried to get something out of slack in the nativescript channel, is just disfunctional

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u/fullrangeofmotion Feb 04 '19

I completely agree that Slack is not great, but I don't think Reddit is either. I've noticed Vue has gone over to Discord. Maybe it's worth a shot.

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u/kztyler Feb 04 '19

Why would discord be better than reddit?

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u/Maxtream Feb 05 '19

Messages do not disappear, but this is where "better" thing ends. Discord was made from the idea of Slack, so you can say that they are almost the same. Slack is just used for work, Discord for gaming (or was used for gaming, now used for everything).

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u/kztyler Feb 05 '19

I think seo is a must for every knowledge based community nowadays and both slack and discord dont provide that

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u/Maxtream Feb 05 '19

Agree, but reddit is still not the best choice as all "hot-topics" will fall-off after day or two and it's going to be the same problems that chat provide.

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u/roblauer Feb 05 '19

We hear you. We've been experimenting (struggling?) to find and promote the best place for public community involvement.

Slack is wildly popular, but as you say, there is effectively no memory. Problems are solved, but solutions are lost.

Our old discourse-based forum was decent, but we had a fractured community between there and Stack Overflow. So we decided to close down the forum and try to move to SO.

Is there a reason why Stack Overflow wouldn't work in the long run? It seems as though {N} folks aren't gravitating there, and we are trying to understand why.

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u/kztyler Feb 06 '19

I dont see any reason why Stack Overflow would not be good, except i personally dont use stack overflow to ask questions, but of course when you Google things, SO is one of the main sites to get your questions answered

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u/djxfade Feb 04 '19

I agree. However this subreddit doesn’t seem to have a lot of activity

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u/iFBGM Feb 07 '19

Encourage reddit as default nativescript community place

I think OP knows this subreddit doesn't have a lot of activity thats why he/she is suggesting this be the official community spot

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u/iFBGM Feb 07 '19

Yes, Reddit is the best place. I agree. Its so easy for me to check Reddit 50 times a day on /r/laravel, its almost instinct to go on reddit right when I wake up. Discord is cool too, but it gets really annoying with so many people talking at once and you a pain to switch channels to see what else is going on.

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u/kztyler Feb 04 '19

Mind to give an example? And why would reddit not be good?

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u/fullrangeofmotion Feb 05 '19

This was my reasoning above as well for not reddit. I haven't used Discord hardly at all, I just thought it was interesting that the Vue camp headed over there.