What I would like to do is make the basic information much more accessible, which would ensure that the more fundamental questions are answered implicitly while the conversation can cultivate around more productive topics. The link to the FAQ doesn't curb the thrice weekly request for source parameter help, and there are a lot of requests that redundant.
Do you guys have any suggestions to provide community newcomers a checklist of information they need to get started? Do you have any good examples of other communities that do it better? Well, maybe I just gave myself an idea there... Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Doug Williams <d...@twitter.com> wrote: > > Chad, > > A number of people have asked on- and off- list where they should display > > their app and ask for feedback. Do you think that a separate group for > > feedback and suggestions for workable apps would be beneficial? > > If there was a group of people that would be willing to actively > participate in such a group, then I think it would be a valuable > thing. imho, the value of a group/list is in the amount of response > or discussion that is generated by the posts. Right now asking for > feedback on apps (for example) is extremely hit-or-miss. As an > example: my post yesterday asking for testers/feedback on my iphone > webapp did generate some traffic (from my analytics I saw that at > least 20 people went to try it out), but only 1 person sent a reply to > that thread (publicly or privately). This is just a personal example > as a data-point, I'm not whining or having a self-pity party... so > turn off your flamethrowers. > > If there were a separate list where people were willing and able to > test apps and give feedback to people before publicly launching > something, that could be really helpful. However, I know the > perception of creating a separate private list will probably be > negative and seen as creating a clique or something, but for the > people that are always hanging around these boards I think they would > appreciate it. How would you decide who to give membership to? I > dunno... again, I know there's not an easy answer. > > The way I see it now (or at least in the recent past), this board has > been mainly used for asking how to get a source parameter, basic > how-to-get-started type questions, and reporting twitter service > outages or glitches that the twitter team are probably already > painfully aware of. I know there are others that feel the same way, > and I'm not alone. I'm not saying these are bad or unworthy topics, I > think I have been helpful in answering a fair share of "getting > started" questions b/c it's important to grow the community. I just > think it would be nice to have a placed for deeper, more focused > discussion for the active 3rd party developers out there. Maybe > that's pie in the sky, who knows... > > I'm not trying to start factions here... maybe I didn't phrase my > initial question correctly.... > > carry on, > -Chad >
