Hasty Treat - Building A Community Slack, Discord, Spectrum, Discourse, Forums
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about community building online — some of the different software techniques and things you can do to either get started with a web community or join one.
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Show Notes
7:16 - Chat options
- Slack
- Discord
- Level Up Tutorials Discord
- Faster communication
9:00 - Forum based
- Indexable
- Searchable
- Slower communication
- Discourse
- Spectrum
- Facebook groups
- Syntax Reddit
27:27 - Commenting systems
- YouTube comments
- Comments systems in general
Links
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- Scott’s Twitter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Monday, Monday, Monday, |
| 0:02.0 | Open wide Dev fans. |
| 0:04.0 | Get ready to stuff your face |
| 0:06.0 | with JavaScript, CSS, node modules, barbecue tips, |
| 0:09.0 | get workflows, |
| 0:10.0 | break dancing, soft skills, web development, |
| 0:12.0 | the hastiest, the craziest, the craziest development the hastiest the craziest the tastiest web development treats coming in hot here is |
| 0:18.1 | Wes Barracuda bars and Scott El Toroloko Tolinsky. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to Syntax in this Monday, hasty treat. |
| 0:30.5 | We're going to be talking about community building online, some of the different |
| 0:35.6 | software techniques and things you can do to either get started with a web |
| 0:39.7 | community or join one, potentially join one of the two that you're going to be hearing about in this episode. |
| 0:46.0 | And we are going to be talking a lot about the pluses and minuses here, a little things to consider when thinking about community on the web. |
| 0:55.1 | Now my name is Scott Tolinsky, I'm a full stack developer from Denver, Colorado and |
| 0:58.9 | with me as always is West Boss. |
| 1:01.3 | Hey, I'm excited to talk about this because I don't feel like there's any like perfect |
| 1:06.0 | solution out there yet and there's lots of options out there and they all have their, as you said, |
| 1:12.4 | pluses and minuses, but I don't think there's a silver bullet out there yet, and I'm really hoping |
| 1:17.4 | GitHub comes out with something pretty soon, so we'll talk about that. |
| 1:20.2 | Ooh, yeah. You know what, I have personally, well, yeah. You know what I have personally, well, okay, well, we'll share my opinion. |
| 1:26.2 | I'll wait to share some of my opinions. |
| 1:28.2 | All right. But this episode is sponsored by one of our favorite sponsors over here. |
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