We're so tightly integrated with the M$ ecosystem at my work, it's painful. My department has even been going out of it's way to self host (F)OSS alternatives where we can, just to avoid as much of the cludge as possible.
Has anyone tried out the new Teams integration feature that Mattermost recently rolled out for Enterprise customers? If so, any good?
If we can seamlessly sync calls/meetings from Teams into Mattermost and ditch the Teams client for our day-to-day comms, I might have a fighting chance at convincing my supervisor to pivot my department.
If you ever reach a point where self-hosting does become a possibility, I'd recommend checking out Mattermost.
I'm just shocked at the uninspired name choice.
Sleazy Yeezy would have been hilarious.
I agree. I love seeing community engagement when there's an actual question involved.
My issue is with the flood of incredibly, incredibly basic questions being repeated over and over again. Especially when the user isn't even looking for discussion - just an answer. Essentially treating the community like their own human-powered search engine. Gives off the vibe that they OP's don't care enough to put any effort in, they just want someone else to spoon-feed them and/or tell them what to do. Seems so mindless.
And, the sheer volume of posts that fit that description can, and do, inadvertently drown out the less frequent, but more valid questions and requests for help.. which just, sucks.
I see where you're coming from. "Any publicity is good publicity", as they say. So, sure... traction is good for overall visibility. I agree. We do need more of that.
To counter your counter, for the sake of discussion:
If the traction is built on semi-incoherent noise, doesn't that feel precarious? Artificial, even? Kinda reminds me of bot-boosting, where you'd see a big initial uptick in views and maybe drum up some actual buzz. But in the long term, it's either a fart in the wind, or it backfires altogether and ends up fueling a negative public opinion.
Yeah, figured it was a bit of a coin toss. Eye of the beholder, and all that. I did rewrite the post a few times to dial back my spiciness... maybe it would have been a better fit if I left it sounding extra bitchy 🤣
This mainly relates to tech communities, but certainly applies elsewhere. I'm just so sick of seeing a constant flood of basic questions being posted that would've been better off as a search query.
Instead of communities being a wealth of discussion and a place to learn/exchange knowledge and ideas, it feels like most have about 10-20% solid content at best, and 80-90% useless noise: "How do I X?", "What Linux Distro should I use?", "What does Y mean?"
Like, I'm all for asking questions, but I prefer to help those who help themselves. Is this all the result of iPad kid syndrome or something?
If you're willing to take the time to post a simple question that 50 other people have already asked within the last week instead of taking 5 seconds to search for an answer (that'll probably be the first result on any search engine), your thought process makes no sense to me and I can't see you as anything other than a complete nuisance to the community/fediverse.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.