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Habr's idea and its possible development

When you write something to the forum, it immediately gets into the field of general attention, regardless of whether these people are your friends or not. In a blog, only your friends will see your post. However, in a blog, your text is a unique event, and the discussion under it is, in any case, an “appendage”, although it may be more interesting than the source material. While on the forum you are just starting a topic and it is never completely yours, because This is a collective activity.
What they did on Habré - they combined the blog uniqueness of the author’s text with its forum accessibility. This is conceptual. In fact, this is a traditional newspaper / magazine format, implemented entirely on the ideology of Web 2.0.

I do not know just whether Habr was the first in this sense? Or used analogs, but offered some special rating system and karma, designed to filter the materials available to the public. In my opinion, this system turned out to be poorly scalable: with a large concourse of different people, it hardly performs its main function as an analogue of the editor-in-chief in traditional media. But this is a question of evolution, a matter of experience and future conceptualities of either the creators of Habr or other people.

Another direction of evolution is seen in the format of the presentation of materials. For I suppose that the format is not just a matter of visual convenience, it can reflect quite conceptual things. This refers to both formats of content (texts), and ways to systematize them, categorize ...

The third possible path of development is connected with the question of whether a medium of the Habrovskaya type can support “multicommunity”. Those. can, for example, organize two large and thematically completely different communities on the same site? For example, IT professionals and car enthusiasts. And if not two, but hundreds, thousands and millions of communities? My answer is maybe, but this is no longer Habr's idea, it is something else.
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If evolution takes into account the direction of user activity to systematize the material, then this “something else” is closely intertwined with another mega-conceptual thing - new search technologies, on which the best people like Ashmanov (popular search) and Rambler (vertical search) are working, like the other day read from Artur Welf) Well, Google and others like them.

Shl. Habralyudi, you - crazy. Because they are normal, they are just people, but not any habr. And they write just topics, not habratopiki. Garipoterschina straight some.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/28846/


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