Apart from HN and IH (love these communities as well btw!) what are some websites you can’t live without?
Any dev YouTube channels you are particularly fond of?
What do you think of Forem badges? Are you using them on Development Hackers? Would love to get your opinion or ideas on ways to reward/incentivize community members.
Product Hunt to try new tools for work and Reddit (but more for personal things) ;)
I'm a big fan of Fireship: youtube.com/c/Fireship
Lots of intro videos to many different techs, languages and frameworks. The production quality is impressive.
I think badges are great ways to gamify community engagement and I just started experimenting a bit with them. I need to think about what to reward and how to automate it. For example, I'd like to give badges to people that retweet our twitter posts, and one way to do this would be using spfns.xyz/
They use bots to check if you are being retweeted, liked etc and award "XP" for it. I'd like to link that XP to badges on our forem in order to reward users. If someone wants to organise a chat on the subject of rewards and incentives for communities I would be very interested in participating. I have a lot to learn here and I think crypto communities have showed us how far we can go.
I also love PH although I find myself visiting the website a lot less compared to a few years before. Reddit has also played an important role when I was looking to have a question answered. But ironically I still use Google to search for things on Reddit 😂
Just subscribed to the Fireship YT channel. Looking forward to checking out their content. Thanks for sharing!
For example, I'd like to give badges to people that retweet our twitter posts, and one way to do this would be using spfns.xyz/
Rewarding people for actions/achievements inside and outside a Forem community is a great idea! I'd also be interested in organizing a Zoom or Discord call on the subject of rewards and incentives for communities. It might be fun to do it as a monthly meetup where anyone can share ideas and talk about what is/isnt working for them. I am tagging @ellativity and @michaeltharrington to see what they think would be the best way to go about this. I am more than happy to take the lead in organizing this.
I really hope that everyone using Forem will feel empowered to organize skill shares or meetups - it's open-source software so we can't expect that we're gonna be the only people hosting these conversations. Please feel free to share news and invites here on forem.dev (we can talk about setting up the forem.dev/workshop page to host your sign ups as well if you want!)
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Another awesome spotlight + ama 💚
A few questions from me:
Apart from HN and IH (love these communities as well btw!) what are some websites you can’t live without?
Any dev YouTube channels you are particularly fond of?
What do you think of Forem badges? Are you using them on Development Hackers? Would love to get your opinion or ideas on ways to reward/incentivize community members.
Thanks Ildi !
I also love PH although I find myself visiting the website a lot less compared to a few years before. Reddit has also played an important role when I was looking to have a question answered. But ironically I still use Google to search for things on Reddit 😂
Just subscribed to the Fireship YT channel. Looking forward to checking out their content. Thanks for sharing!
Rewarding people for actions/achievements inside and outside a Forem community is a great idea! I'd also be interested in organizing a Zoom or Discord call on the subject of rewards and incentives for communities. It might be fun to do it as a monthly meetup where anyone can share ideas and talk about what is/isnt working for them. I am tagging @ellativity and @michaeltharrington to see what they think would be the best way to go about this. I am more than happy to take the lead in organizing this.
Oh wow! I love this idea. 😀
We should meet up and discuss how to go about this for sure.
I'll be in touch!
Count me in!
Always love your enthusiasm @ildi!
I really hope that everyone using Forem will feel empowered to organize skill shares or meetups - it's open-source software so we can't expect that we're gonna be the only people hosting these conversations. Please feel free to share news and invites here on forem.dev (we can talk about setting up the forem.dev/workshop page to host your sign ups as well if you want!)