| > the domain, if you look at it really quickly, appears to almost be 'metalmaniac' The domain name confuses people a lot, I've actually received similar comments before. Terrible naming choice from my side. > Where does the 'Reddit for programmers' originate? I thought it was a reasonable analogy to describe the site. Since it's essentially subreddits+chat for programming topics. The other alternative is "An online community for programmers", which is what I have on the landing page currently. I'm still experimenting with different taglines. I agree that there are already (very good) solutions for the problem I am trying to solve, it's just that it's a broken experience (or so I thought), jumping between stackoverflow, hn, reddit, irc. I thought there is value in providing this experience under a single site in the hope that it becomes a more welcoming place for beginners. Regarding the chat part, yeah it does allow realtime trolling, but I have not had much traffic so far. One solution is to just set the tone for the community and be hard on trolls with shadow banning and even banning. As you said, having good moderators is also necessary. Thanks for the feedback. |
Personally, I love it, but I spent most of my teen years as a metal-head/progressive rock fan (which I've found to be pretty common among programmers). Meh, name is important to a point, but with all of the 'common names' taken up, and companies picking goofy hipster names, I don't know how important it really is.
I agree with you about fragmentation ... it would be nice to have a site with all of these features with the content to go along with it. Maybe it'd make sense to synchronize relevant Creative Commons documentation that's out there. As long as it's always up-to-date and not done in a spammy manner, having a nice source of docs that includes Q&A and chat would be interesting (I know SO is working on something like that now, too, minus the chat).
It's a neat idea that will require a lot in the way of execution -- getting users to join/participate, or even interested is going to be the biggest up-hill battle.
Curious - is the code for it open source and what language is the back-end done in? It's something I'd consider participating in the development of if it's in languages I work with (mostly .NET and JavaScript [though I do 90% in TypeScript these days and try to avoid JS]).