>listen to your users. they might have better ideas than you! So true. My products have improved greatly from listening to (some!) user feedback.
Users that give great feedback also generally give great feedback in the future.
Things I learned after getting users
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#12Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good solution. Looking for something free though until there's a need to have better insight than I can get without paying for it
I'm using the Sentry free tier and it is great. The main value is how to managed repeated errors. You can group different exceptions for the "same" error, resolve errors that have been fixed or ignore known errors until they occur to more users, more often or what have you.
If you are good about squashing errors you can make it very far on the free plan. Plus they have some burst detection built in. Just make sure that "expected" errors aren't just ignored in the UI, stop emitting them in the app itself so they don't count towards your quota (and it keeps your logs tidy).
I haven't been using their tracing or anything because their Rust SDK doesn't seem to support it despite claiming that it does (or I have set it up wrong).
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#13> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
Attention seeking + lack of moral compass.
A lot of them are edgy underage children and don't know any better. They think that they have a dark sense of humor but really they've lived a life disconnected from those words, so they like the idea of pushing others buttons at no cost to their selfish existence.
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#14> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
"Is my girlfriend pregante?"
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#15> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
Attention seeking + lack of moral compass.
not only attention seeking, sometimes the motivation is "to spread the truth", at least as they perceive it, and sometimes it's people who get triggered and are not able to stop their rants
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#16> some users have suggested pretty smart features that i've since implemented, like this back-to-top button to quickly get back to the top of the page To me all position:fixed elements (headers, footers, this back-to-top button, etc) feel like a kind of annoying dirt on the screen. Their absence is a big part of why I love the web 1.0 aesthetic.
Me too, but I still added a table of contents button on my long, structured articles. It's very helpful in my opinion.
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#17> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
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#18Are you paying for Sentry? What type of monitoring does it provide? I'm working on a project I'd like to add some monitoring so I'm on the lookout for a good solution. Looking for something free though until there's a need to have better insight than I can get without paying for it
I'm using the Sentry free tier and it is great. The main value is how to managed repeated errors. You can group different exceptions for the "same" error, resolve errors that have been fixed or ignore known errors until they occur to more users, more often or what have you. If you are good about squashing errors you can make it very far on the free plan. Plus they have some burst detection built in. Just make sure th…
Thank you for elaborating, this is useful :)
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#19> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
I dealt with a similar basket case once.
It seems like parasocial relationships can swing both ways. You know how some fans develop a creepy, obsessive sort of love for creators? Well, the same goes for hatred. They feel slighted by that person that doesn't know them, and they retaliate from behind their keyboard.
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#20> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceeded to post and create threads that were just full of dumb slurs. this was definitely a learning experience because i had to act quickly, so i tried a bunch of different methods to get rid of him. it's sad that people like this exist in the w…
competitor obviously