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Set up a Discord #293

Open bhallstein opened 1 year ago

bhallstein commented 1 year ago

Been interacting with discords for various dev things recently and have some thoughts:

  1. They are a really nice way of interacting with/building a community around your product. The direct interaction with the People Behind the Thing feels really connected and open.
  2. It's a great way to get/give support to users. a. Plus if you have some dedicated users in there then it's a good place for them to help others as far as they can. i.e. a bit of sharing the support burden, potentially.
  3. People are mostly nice; the creator/admin plays a big role in setting the tone. I especially like Ray from the Raylib discord (raylib homepage), he welcomes new sign-ups in a #welcome channel and is just generally a delight to everyone. I'd like us to be like that.
  4. Github issues are nice, but aren't the ideal way to interact (a lot of them would create a lot of admin, better to try to keep them low volume and high quality.)
  5. There are other things like Slack, but Discord really seems to be where the game is. It feels like it's pushed the others out simply by being liked the most, and I like that it's a bit fun.
  6. We could ask our friends to join so it doesn't look super empty.
  7. We need to start taking some kind of steps toward putting Wombat out there! a. Although this is going to create some overhead (if anyone joins). (I'm also privately worried about anyone actually being interested. 👻) b. Message on the site saying "join the discord to get access to the private beta" then DM people sign up codes, for starters, could be good.
  8. A lot of developers are used to joining discords to interact with libraries & products at this point. Developers (esp designer-developers) also seem like the big opportunity for us, and kind of our early adopter target market. So it could work well for us on that basis. a. I feel like interacting with those people and being quality to them, creating value for them, would be beneficial for us (a lot of them are quite "connected" in the digital sense, on socials etc., like writing about dev & design stuff), as well as being an altruistic outlet, and also potentially fun.
  9. I am just aching to reintroduce :plus-1-multi: back into my life and this seems like the perfect way.

Filing this under Marketing for now although I feel a bit greasy about doing so.