The majority of community interaction still happens in the chat. But me and @Jankeesvw are actively developing the website to facilitate it here as well.
The chat is great, but can be distracting and sometimes hard to follow. The website allows us for deeper interactions like this Q&A.
It seems like the notification system already works well to notify you when something relevant to you happened. So you post a question, someone answers. You get a notification email. That prompts you to check out their answer and perhaps reply to it. Which then sends them a notification email, etc.
That works well, because you already check your email inbox multiple times per day. And the emails are (hopefully) always relevant because they pertain to you personally and are actionable (e.g. we don't email you when someone likes your comment, because that's nothing you can act on)
But there's still the issue of getting people to the website in the first place. To post that question here. And to see what other people are up to.
For that we're experimenting with a weekly community digest sent via email. And also making the homepage more interesting to you by letting you follow specific individuals rather than every single WIP member.
We still have a long way to go though. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
The majority of community interaction still happens in the chat. But me and @Jankeesvw are actively developing the website to facilitate it here as well.
The chat is great, but can be distracting and sometimes hard to follow. The website allows us for deeper interactions like this Q&A.
It seems like the notification system already works well to notify you when something relevant to you happened. So you post a question, someone answers. You get a notification email. That prompts you to check out their answer and perhaps reply to it. Which then sends them a notification email, etc.
That works well, because you already check your email inbox multiple times per day. And the emails are (hopefully) always relevant because they pertain to you personally and are actionable (e.g. we don't email you when someone likes your comment, because that's nothing you can act on)
But there's still the issue of getting people to the website in the first place. To post that question here. And to see what other people are up to.
For that we're experimenting with a weekly community digest sent via email. And also making the homepage more interesting to you by letting you follow specific individuals rather than every single WIP member.
We still have a long way to go though. Any suggestions are more than welcome.