Timeline for The Q1 2020 Community Roadmap is on the Blog
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 11:12 | comment | added | ouflak | @AnsgarWiechers, Unless this site decides to become an Experts Exchanges clone with basically just a few users answering questions for each other and all paying for the privilige, we should make it as easy, click-free (canceling spammy sign-up prompts), and welcoming as possible. The casual users should never be given even the slightest impression that you have to pay to see anything or that you have to 'register', not even accidentally. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | ouflak | @AnsgarWiechers, I'm certain that happens. But what I meant was that for this site, it's the vast number of casual users that spread the word, make up and encourage the bulk of traffic, and are the reason why so many of us participate in doing more than just getting answers for our own issues. If you chase those people away, this site will fail just as surely as it would if the contributors were the ones to go first. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 11:02 | comment | added | Ansgar Wiechers | @ouflak I've seen claims like this in other communities before. But guess what: once the people who provided the answers left, the communities were dead in the water despite all those "users who fly in, get an answer, and fly away." Because they couldn't get an answer anymore. | |
| Feb 26, 2020 at 11:51 | comment | added | Lundin | Similarly, in their attempt make the community more inclusive, they launched a campaign that lead to harassment towards LHBTQ people. Now they have a campaign to interact more with the community and find out what it wants, which they started by firing all of the most respected CMs, the last people in the company that the community respected somewhat. Over and over, they mean one thing and do the opposite. The failure everyone does when discussing the company's actions over the past year is assuming that they are competent and make rational decisions. This simply isn't the case. | |
| Feb 26, 2020 at 11:49 | comment | added | Lundin | @TRiG No they haven't, they have actively been moving away from quality to quantity over the last 6 years or so. The intention of the company is definitely to increase traffic. That they implement features that are counter-productive to their own goals, such as replacing the front page with a corporate barf paywall, is simply because of incompetence. -> | |
| Feb 26, 2020 at 11:21 | comment | added | TRiG | They've been chasing away casual visitors for years. Have you seen the Stack Overflow homepage when logged out? It's all corporate gumph, and it isn't at all obvious that you can view the site without signing up. I know that's all the rage these days (Twitter is the same), but it's not friendly. | |
| Feb 26, 2020 at 8:38 | history | edited | ouflak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 26, 2020 at 8:32 | history | answered | ouflak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |