[AskEchoJS] $$TREND$$ Posts

4 up and 1 down, posted by tracker1 71 days ago 6 comments

tracker1 71 days ago.

In the past, I would nuke the vast majority of articles on $TREND, such as with Bitcoin/Blockchain when the majority were either low-quality posts, or otherwise pointing to one of many, many apps that glued a couple things together.

I've noticed a bit of an uptick on "AI" this time around, and am curious how the community feels about them.  I have yet to see 3+ in a day, but want to gauge everyone before I go crazy with the delete button.

The https://www.echojs.com/about page lists posting rules at the bottom.  While some of these aren't against the letter of the rules, some are just spammy in nature and often rely on commercial services.

Happy to see a discussion here, and as always, don't be afraid to downvote a post, if it gets deleted you get double the karma back.  You can also comment and receive upvotes on insightful comments.

misan 70 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

I rarely see good javascript/webdev/typescript related blog articles here, which is what I'm actually in here for.

I'm not interested at all in release notes for example. Especially not minor or patch versions. I check out GitHub or the product website for that regularly. Although for some things like nodejs it's not that transparent. A separate website/service for release notes that collectively gathers summaries of updates and to promote new packages would be welcome to separate from the learning material. Part of development is also to hunt for good packages and components. Being able to see them in one place rather than scattered here would be better I believe.

I agree with you that Blockchain/Bitcoin does not belong here. When it comes to AI, the lines between programming and ai are blurry. I'm not interested in posts that try to sell their services to me, whereas news about js-related services such as Deno Deploy with generous free tier are welcome to me. 

I primarily use Echo JS to learn new techniques, methods, ways of doing something. These are sadly the minority of posts.

tracker1 70 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Yeah, I don't get a lot from the majority of posts, I just try to at least curate the lower quality stuff out.  I don't mind posts on releases as long as they aren't like every week (multiple times a month).

I posted on the Node update a few weeks ago as I thought SQLite in the box was particularly noteworthy.

I could honestly do without most of the AI posts, and definitely the blockchain.  When it's an obvious service ad, I tend to delete, unless the post itself has value beyond that.

In general, blog posts seem to be a lot of hit and miss.  I'd also like to see a bit more discussion on the site, I know it's kind of hard and most are using it as a casual reader aggregate.  I do too.

Going to try to cross-post anything interesting from HN and some of the mailing lists I'm on.  I don't always keep up with it well, but would like to see things grow.  There's definitely room and definitely plenty of new content that can bring that out.

uptownhr 65 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Q: does $TREND mean "top / homepage" ? 

If so, I have not seen much "AI" related there but maybe this is in-result of your pruning already. 

I do agree, if they aren't directly related to how to use [X crypto/ai] with JS/TS lib/sdk, then probably should be flagged/removed.

fallanic 69 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

I do work with Blockchain technology day to day, but will remove any Blockchain posts unless they have a concrete relationship with JS/TS or web dev in general.

The same applies with AI, even if I am ALSO very interested in AI.

Thanks for being an excellent (and considerate) moderator :)

MaxArt 70 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

I think your decisions on moderation are correct.

My biggest gripe is that spam posts are maybe downvoted quickly - and removed quickly enough - but they always make it to the RSS feed, which is - alas - my main way of getting new posts from Echo JS.

I've always proposed to allow posting news only when reaching a certain amount of karma points. I'd contribute with a PR, but it's also ironic that Echo *JS* uses a forum made with Ruby on Rails...

fallanic 69 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼

Ah yeah, the website is using Ruby / Sinatra actually, which is easier to start working with than Rails (which is great but relies on some code conventions). 

But yes a bit ironic indeed :D

I've added some spam mitigation code to the repo back then, but it could still be improved for sure