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Gitlab Handbook's HN Page
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#92Hey there, I’m a member of the GitLab Community Relations team. My team is responsible for this page. I shared the page today at a DevRel meetup where OP was presenting on Hacker News. I’m grateful he chose to share it with all of you. Thanks, Dan. If there are ways we can improve how we engage with the HN community, myself and our team would love your feedback.
Is it Gitlabs goal to overthrow GitHub as the most popular code repository tool? Or are you catering to a specific/specialized section of the market?
I haven’t used Gitlab, but since this is HN I’ll throw an advice your way anyway: I would LOVE to see a really good code review tool. GitHub has made improvements, but I love reviewable and want at least one of GitHub/Gitlab to have a really amazing code review experience. Things like being able to organize discussions, encouraging better code review etiquette (somehow)… just make it possible for developers to review code.
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#93Since it is a common usenet/forum/flame warrior method, I have a strong opinion about: Address multi-faceted comments by breaking them down and using points, numbering and quoting. Except when the facets are purely technical, this approach trends toward full defensive point by point rebuttal. Once the points counting starts, the logic of points-counting becomes part of the public performance. In general, people don’t…
I do like that it provides certain guarantees that the post was read fully, and that each question/issue was addressed and not missed, sort of like a Shisa Kanko (Point and Call) for online replies.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my ideal world, most content sharing and even social media sites should be like this. Good content driving interest instead of gaming the algorithm to get clicks and views would lead to a better ecosystem of information with less noise. Although I doubt we’ll ever reach that point so I’m wondering if there are other small communities around the web that are just more quality-oriented on the content shared (I just…
Lobsters is a good one. (You need an invite.) And I'm a member of some slacks that are just killer in terms of content and discussion. Too bad about the memory hole.
You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations.
(If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
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One thing that looked a little odd is the doc asks potential contributors to familiarize themselves with a fairly convoluted guide to 'unofficial' HN features but doesn't mention or link HN's own guidelines and FAQ. But maybe it's targeted at people who've read them?
Good point. MR to add the offical HN links: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/merge_request...
Thanks, set to merge.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lobsters is a good one. (You need an invite.) And I'm a member of some slacks that are just killer in terms of content and discussion. Too bad about the memory hole.
You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations. (If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
Or Element/Matrix. It's nearly comparable to Discord these days, plus it's open source.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lobsters is a good one. (You need an invite.) And I'm a member of some slacks that are just killer in terms of content and discussion. Too bad about the memory hole.
You should consider moving that slack to discord. Discord has unlimited server history for free with pretty good search. The only features you lose compared to slack are ones that are largely only useful for organisations. (If you do move it to discord, invite pls :P)
Discord is too associated with gamer culture which is fairly rancid.