21 Nov
2013
21 Nov
'13
9:40 a.m.
So excellent -- really, really good! Thanks for posting here, and for
passing along that suggestion :)
Pete
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
hi everyone,
i spoke with john (who made the site) about some of the concerns you all
raised and he's created an about page:
http://nptech.io/s/j4p1dw/about_nptech_io. they're also very responsive
on twitter: https://twitter.com/_nptech
going to add more things to it!
- marina
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Awesome, thanks! Look forward to hearing more.
Pete
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
i met the person who's working on it today
and will hopefully see them
again tomorrow (at a conference), so will ask!
- marina
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
It looks great on the surface, but as with so
many of these things, I
find myself hungry for context, and the site provides none! Who built it?
What were their goals? How will they be thinking about whether they are
reaching those goals? How committed are they to fixing bugs, developing new
features, doing outreach, ensuring that it reaches its potential, ensuring
that it's not put to negative and unanticipated uses (spam, bullying, etc
etc)? What kind of resources (financial, humanpower, emotional) do they
have to bring to it? This month? This year? This decade?
These are the kinds of things that are probably known, and could easily
be communicated through a prominent "About this project" page or similar.
These days, when a page like that doesn't exist, I tend to think "Oh, that
looks like an interesting project with potential" and move on, unless
something actively pulls be back in.
Marina, do you know any of those answers? Are you in a position to
suggest that the creators tell a bit of that story on the site itself?
I hope this doesn't come across as curmudgeonly. I think it's an easy
problem to solve, so I hope this feedback is useful!
Pete
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have wanted this to exist for a long time and now it exists!
>
> nptech.io is the hacker news for social good.
>
> let's put more awesome stuff on it and tell everyone! how else are we
> going to find out about all the rad stuff that everyone is working on? we
> need this!
>
> - marina
>
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