Ask Echo jS: Who's behind Echo JS?

10 up and 0 down, posted by olalonde 4173 days ago 13 comments

arnorhs 4173 days ago. link parent 4 points ▲ ▼

Agreed. I come here every day and I love it.

I wish two things were true, though:

1) it was filled with discussions (usually things don't have any comments)
2) It was entirely written in Javascript (for completeness of the universe :)

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dypsilon 4173 days ago. link 4 points ▲ ▼

concerning #2 you might want to take a look at http://telesc.pe/

not mine.

arnorhs 4172 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Some seriously slick UI there.. I might have to check that out. Thanks

damian 4173 days ago. link 3 points ▲ ▼

Having actual discussions would be amazing, any ideas on how to get the community more involved?

arnorhs 4172 days ago. link 4 points ▲ ▼

Not really. Getting a community off the ground usually takes a lot of effort.

As an example, when Reddit was starting out, each of the guys working on it (maybe they were two at the time), had lots of different usernames, and they'd basically make fake conversations all over the place.

That way there were always some people talking so it would be easier for people to join in on the discussion.

I suspect the first step would be for us to just try to break the ice and start having conversations on here.

I at least think the "replies" section is a good add on - I hadn't noticed it until recently.

olalonde 4171 days ago. link 3 points ▲ ▼

Try to comment on stories whenever you can. When the community gets bigger, it'll be important to only write quality comments to keep a high signal-to-noise ratio but at this point, quantity trumps quality IMO.