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Props to the Community and the Admins
Hubdub seems to have emerged from the usually contentious Internet as a community that is focused on the future. I've been participating on the 'net since I was a contributor to rec.autos.sport.f1 on the Usenet back in the late 1980's. I've participated in numerous forums, and only a couple have approached the serious community involvement of Hubdub.
The folks participating in these forums, both from the user community, and the admins, have maintained a very high-level of discourse, a focus on improving the site, and a degree of respect for one another that is all too lacking on the 'net.
Props to you .. Hubdub users and admins!
The folks participating in these forums, both from the user community, and the admins, have maintained a very high-level of discourse, a focus on improving the site, and a degree of respect for one another that is all too lacking on the 'net.
Props to you .. Hubdub users and admins!
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Inappropriate?Thanks for this anaverageamerican. We always wanted to involve the community as much as possible in the development of the site. Our philosophy is that we'd rather push out functionality early and get our users to help us shape it than waste time developing features in secret then discover they're not as useful as we thought.
The discussions of upcoming functionality have also been very useful. In particular, I feel the recent simplification of the leaderboard quarter-end plans was a real triumph for community consultation - not least because it saved us a fair bit of development!! :) -
Inappropriate?This is very heartwarming. Thank you very much, anaverageamerican. I have had a lot of fun so far on Hubdub and I am glad that we're forging a sincere online community for news junkies. This made my day.
--Diana
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?I've been a software developer for somewhere around 25 years, and I cannot tell you how many projects that I have been involved with failed (that doesn't sound too promising, stop reading now 8^) because the business didn't know what it _really_ wanted, and the development team knew _exactly_ what the business needed.
Open communication, and honest assessment of goals, are the keys to success.
One last point I'd like to make is that Hubdub is still in beta, and in my experience as a user, being in a beta always sucks (actually, now that I think of it, in my experience as a developer, being involved in a beta also always sucks). There are bugs, you're trying to accomplish things but the software balks ... that's business as usual for beta-testers. The payoff, from the user side is you gain credibility with the company/development team, so they take your input more seriously than that of "regular" users. The payoff for the company/development team is the creation of a set of super-users who can keep you on the right track in the future.
So it always sort of starts out as a lose-lose (or at least invest-invest) proposition, but can develop into a win-win proposition in the long-term.
I’m showing off how old I am 8^)
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