[Done] Website and/or Discord channel?

[ryan-winkler]

EDIT:

Hey Y'all I'm Taking on the Discord channel -- If you want to join before we launch, see here: https://discord.gg/uFgha7Kb6n

Additionally, we have a github page here: https://dannyvfilms.github.io/floppy/

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Hey @dannyvfilms -- Big fan of your work on this so far, it looks great, and glad you gave Floppy it's own identity rather than hanging out in the shadow of Yamtrack.

Curious if you plan to do anything with Community side, or website side.

Let me know you you need any help with anything on that front. While I'm not a direct developer, I'm a product manager by profession and glad to help write docs or help ideate or whatever is needed.

[dannyvfilms]

I've thought about a website, but I'm pretty sure the domain I'd want is parked and asking for $30k. So I haven't put much thought into it.

I've been asked about Discord more than once. I don't think Discord is a good place for bug reports, or being able to reference past learned context. I worry about my ability to keep up with it, especially since GitHub alone is enough for my spare time. At the moment I'm leaning against a Discord, just because I want to ensure issues and solutions are easily searchable by humans and agents.

If we can draw a good line, I could be convinced on Discord.

I did create a GitHub Project I'd like to find an owner for. It is a queue of Upstream Yamtrack Commits, with a task added every day by an n8n automation if commits are added. If someone would own looking at their work and seeing if they solve bugs we have, add features that could be useful, but with an eye for knowing what would break what we've already done, I have fallen behind on that task.

[DrZacharySmith]

I am strongly in favor of a Discord server. Yes it can add to your workload but it also can build a great community which hopefully take care of itself. Usually a few people will stand out and volunteer to be mods/admins. I was an admin in one and due to life I couldnt be as active then others stepped in and its still thrives. I belong to a few servers where the dev are less involved due to strong community participation.

[ryan-winkler]

@DrZacharySmith come join us --- We'll be announcing it soon, but feel free to join early (It's literally empty, just a prewarning) https://discord.gg/uFgha7Kb6n

[ryan-winkler]

Discord can absolutely be a double edge sword if not Moderated, or if ego and pride run astray, but I've always valued the community building and ability to gather beta testers and active conversations with the users.

I think If you set up good rules, and create the funnel of Pushing everyone to Github for bugs and feature requests, I think you can have best of both worlds.

As for the Project -- Sounds interesting. I can potentially help out there, but need to understand it a bit more to see if I can actually be useful there.

Regarding the domain --> It's more about the Ux of information than domain at this point. I think if you git floppy.github.io or similar, that would do just fine for now, then focus on bigger branding in the future. Glad to help coordinate or whatever you might need on that front too.

[dannyvfilms]

floppy.github.io was already claimed because there's a user with that name. But I was able to claim my own github.io domain and made a rudimentary page just so it exists. I wouldn't at all call it finished, but it at least exists.

https://dannyvfilms.github.io/floppy/

And if the GitHub Project is better maintained by someone else, I'm totally ok with that too. Just need someone that feels comfortable monitoring it.

[ryan-winkler]

I'm still not entirely sure I'm the best man to help you with the project aspect, but if you wanna throw it at me, feel free to and I can figure out what's best.

I own scrobble.dev so if you wanna use that for anything let me know, I dunno how I want to use it yet, but open to suggestions

Glad to set up the channel and we can trial it as well, otherwise I'll leave it to you haha.

[ryan-winkler]

@dannyvfilms did you wanna Jump on Discord or Chat via chat on some platform? Feel Free to send me an email if you'd prefer.

[dannyvfilms]

Go ahead and add me on Discord and we can try to chat later. Wife wants to do grocery shopping, and I need to do some budgeting before my usage limit resets at 2pm and I try to catch up on open issues.