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Add Location #2

Open SamiMRahman opened 3 years ago

SamiMRahman commented 3 years ago

What is your suggestion?

Add Atlanta as a channel under Locations. There are a lot of CS-related jobs opening up as MSFT, Google, and AirBnB are setting up shop in the city. With these relatively large companies moving to Atlanta, there has been an uptick in CS-related jobs which will continue.

What is the value add for adding this to the Discord server?

People with CS-related internships and full-time roles will be able to talk about their experiences with the city and will be able to ask/answer any questions about it.

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joeydotdev commented 3 years ago

I don't have an issue adding this one channel, but these requests raise a larger question. How do we gauge what channels to add? We are under the constraint of creating mass amounts of channels. Having a bunch of channels is overwhelming to new people joining the server and leads to worse UX if we have to scroll around more.

While adding one channel won't necessarily cause this, if we keep adding these channels adhoc to requests then we will find ourselves in that predicament. We tried private channels (community-channels), but they were relatively inactive. So I'm not really sure what the best course of action for this is

SamiMRahman commented 3 years ago

This is a fair point Joey! Thanks for taking the time to respond. I guess a better idea would be to use some kind of metric to determine which location channels to add (and/or remove). I could see an argument, solely off of CS-related growth, for Boston to be added before Atlanta. Even then, maybe Boston and even LA/DC/Chicago should be added and Austin removed, unless we are also trying to take into account CS-related 'regions' as a variable rather than purely going off of a growth metric since the south/southeast regions would not be as represented. Still, if we are trying to decrease the regional disparity, using one major tech-city from the southern US would not really be an all-encompassing answer.

Figuring out a course of action for including additional locations may need to be more closely examined. Just as a brainstorm idea, maybe we could turn 'Locations' into 'Regions', especially since the advent of COVID has made working locations more flexible. Otherwise, taking a crack at determining real metrics for including locations, such as tech-growth and regional-inclusion, could be worthwhile. Thanks again for listening to my suggestions/comments :)

joeydotdev commented 2 years ago

I think implement regions instead of individual cities makes a lot more sense.

@brettfazio @SamiMRahman do y'all have any suggestions on which to add initially?