I very much want a Facebook for coding friends clone.
Lots of solutions out there but I for whatever reason I don't like any of them
Slack/Discord and similar interfaces are effectively chat. I want topics and replies. I know you can start a topic on both of those but it just feels less conducive to friends talking to me than talking on Facebook.
I could make groups on facebook. I can't put my finger on why this doesn't work. Maybe because it requires diligence. I have to remember to select the group of "programmer friends" that I want to topic to go to. Forget and my either my programmer friends get family posts or my family gets programmer posts. Also FB will spam non-programmer friends with "g posted about x over here".
A forum like discourse or phpbb doesn't have to social graph. Anyone that joins can participate in all discussion. I want to talk to friends only
Google+ and some features that seemed to kind of go in this directly but I feel like most people used it to spread news instead of discuss what they're working on or thoughts they are having. I don't need tech news. I can get that here.
I'm not even saying Facebook is the best UX for what I want. I used to enjoy a smf forum that was mostly friends and I liked that I could see the list of topics. But, I also just like glancing at my Facebook feed once a day or so and see what my friends are up to. I'd like a similar experience except for programming / tech only topics with tech only friends.
And of course it goes without saying that a coding FB should format code well and some how allow embedding live snippets in iframes
Note: I know lots of people say their FB news feed is a dumpster fire. For whatever reason I've unfollowed enough people or something that mine is fine. Unfollowed every political friend for example. Just don't want that on my newsfeed. Can get it elsewhere
Lots of solutions out there but I for whatever reason I don't like any of them
This is one of the reasons why I think Facebook is virtually impossible to topple as the dominant social network. Facebook came along when social networks were new and unusual, and people didn't really have ideas about what they could be. Everyone accepted Facebook's UI and feature set, even if they didn't really like it, and signed up anyway. Now people expect to see set of features they want from a social network on Day One, and won't compromise by signing up if those things aren't there. Consequently if you want to build a new social network app you have a massive undertaking from the outset. Without doing that no social network can gain enough traction to grow enough to compete with Facebook.
Unless users are willing to accept a less than perfect solution they're going to be stuck with Facebook as the only real option.
I want the social graph. I post, only the people I added as "friends" get to see my post, not everyone who signed up for the discord/slack. I also only want to see posts from my friends. But of course, we all have different lists of friends. Discord/Slack don't seem to be about that. But thank you for the recommendation. I'll still take a look
Dischord/Slack allows me to set up chat servers for any specific circle I share a common project with.
If anything it provides a more specialized, focused, social graph. That's not saying it's better or worse than Facebook's approach. I generally expect someone to answer a post I put on discord "in real time", to accomplish something.
What's good (and bad) about a Facebook post is that it allows me to just throw out an idea and any one of my many friends, from many circles, can respond.
I wonder if a discord that allowed general broad also would be interesting.
Lots of solutions out there but I for whatever reason I don't like any of them
Slack/Discord and similar interfaces are effectively chat. I want topics and replies. I know you can start a topic on both of those but it just feels less conducive to friends talking to me than talking on Facebook.
I could make groups on facebook. I can't put my finger on why this doesn't work. Maybe because it requires diligence. I have to remember to select the group of "programmer friends" that I want to topic to go to. Forget and my either my programmer friends get family posts or my family gets programmer posts. Also FB will spam non-programmer friends with "g posted about x over here".
A forum like discourse or phpbb doesn't have to social graph. Anyone that joins can participate in all discussion. I want to talk to friends only
Google+ and some features that seemed to kind of go in this directly but I feel like most people used it to spread news instead of discuss what they're working on or thoughts they are having. I don't need tech news. I can get that here.
I'm not even saying Facebook is the best UX for what I want. I used to enjoy a smf forum that was mostly friends and I liked that I could see the list of topics. But, I also just like glancing at my Facebook feed once a day or so and see what my friends are up to. I'd like a similar experience except for programming / tech only topics with tech only friends.
And of course it goes without saying that a coding FB should format code well and some how allow embedding live snippets in iframes
Note: I know lots of people say their FB news feed is a dumpster fire. For whatever reason I've unfollowed enough people or something that mine is fine. Unfollowed every political friend for example. Just don't want that on my newsfeed. Can get it elsewhere