GeekTimes profile issue
At first I wanted to write this reflection as a comment on the news about the allocation of GeekTimes .
Gentlemen Themed Media!
In general, something I suspiciously dislike this idea. Still, IT, in the first place, programming, was such a refrain throughout Habré, even in completely non-core posts in the comments things like programming were often discussed.
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Yes, even this is not the main thing. Recall that from 2008 (or 2009?) Of a year to a programmer, and not a good one, it became very difficult to get on Habr. That is, the writing and commentary audience was whole, even discussing all sorts of crap.
If you define GT as a “site for geeks, but about everything”, it turns out that you pulled out the core, the root, without leaving a defining direction. Here's a metaphor for you: if you cut a tree and stick a trunk (GT) into the ground, it will dry in a month, and new shoots (non-core posts) will trample from the stump and rootstock (Habr). But if you saw off a twig (a certain topic), you dig it in and pour it, it will have a chance to spread its own roots. (This is called vegetative reproduction.)
Now on GT a very strong erosion will begin, because the indulgence to write on offtopic topics has been officially given. Unclear sandbox criteria. On Habré, a post in the sandbox should be on a profile topic, and on a GT on which one? On a topic for which there is already a hub? And what are the criteria for creating a hub then? Again, on Habré, the administration easily added profile hubs, and not profile ones kept in manual control mode (remember the story of the removal and return of Dura Lex, the removal of DSLR, etc.). On the GT, the profile is, in fact, absent, so there will be fair perturbations, why such a hub was added, and the other is not.
I consider StackExchange an exemplary approach to building communities. Why did you not adopt their approach? Please note that their second site after StackOverflow was ServerFault, and not the “Site for all offtop with StackOverflow”.
On Habré there are several clusters of topics that, in my opinion, would be ideal for creating thematic sites:
- All profile IT, programming, administration remains on Habré
- Laws (especially RF), copying, copyright, patents, software licensing issues, etc.
- Life hacking, DIY, gadgets
- Nauchpop, cosmonautics, physics, mathematics, other science news, news like “IBM Watson learned to do something,” etc.
Gentlemen Themed Media!
In general, something I suspiciously dislike this idea. Still, IT, in the first place, programming, was such a refrain throughout Habré, even in completely non-core posts in the comments things like programming were often discussed.
')
Yes, even this is not the main thing. Recall that from 2008 (or 2009?) Of a year to a programmer, and not a good one, it became very difficult to get on Habr. That is, the writing and commentary audience was whole, even discussing all sorts of crap.
If you define GT as a “site for geeks, but about everything”, it turns out that you pulled out the core, the root, without leaving a defining direction. Here's a metaphor for you: if you cut a tree and stick a trunk (GT) into the ground, it will dry in a month, and new shoots (non-core posts) will trample from the stump and rootstock (Habr). But if you saw off a twig (a certain topic), you dig it in and pour it, it will have a chance to spread its own roots. (This is called vegetative reproduction.)
Now on GT a very strong erosion will begin, because the indulgence to write on offtopic topics has been officially given. Unclear sandbox criteria. On Habré, a post in the sandbox should be on a profile topic, and on a GT on which one? On a topic for which there is already a hub? And what are the criteria for creating a hub then? Again, on Habré, the administration easily added profile hubs, and not profile ones kept in manual control mode (remember the story of the removal and return of Dura Lex, the removal of DSLR, etc.). On the GT, the profile is, in fact, absent, so there will be fair perturbations, why such a hub was added, and the other is not.
I consider StackExchange an exemplary approach to building communities. Why did you not adopt their approach? Please note that their second site after StackOverflow was ServerFault, and not the “Site for all offtop with StackOverflow”.
On Habré there are several clusters of topics that, in my opinion, would be ideal for creating thematic sites:
- All profile IT, programming, administration remains on Habré
- Laws (especially RF), copying, copyright, patents, software licensing issues, etc.
- Life hacking, DIY, gadgets
- Nauchpop, cosmonautics, physics, mathematics, other science news, news like “IBM Watson learned to do something,” etc.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/361751/
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