Morgan Lucas

The idea is quite sound - Want to learn? Want to show off your work? Do it here! - unfortunately the general white collar work culture is what makes LinkedIn an unpleasant place to be. On a website instance, having messaging behind a paywall is not a very helpful networking site. Comments do not appear without rapid refreshing. Their Trust and Safety team is more interested in upholding the harmful ideals of companies than moving toward genuine improvement in the workforce. I wish it was more of a hub; Have calendar integration, a more immersive way to show off projects. That would be a fitting thing to put behind a paywall, not fleecing people begging for work they won't get from your site.

I liked the feed feature; I understand it wasn't used a ton, but I did enjoy looking around and seeing what people were making. It's now just another portfolio site in the vein of caard. I already have a personal site, so there's not much need for me to visit since I can't really find anyone else.

I miss the days of the old internet; Where you could share more about yourself and not be judged, or stalked (as much). Now it's "I shared this here; Do I have a good enough reputation here so no one will try to hunt me down and ruin what little life I have?" Tools like Privacy Party help; My one caveat is that I do have to log into Chrome and log into my sites to use it, a few times a year or so, to check my settings. If it's available for Firefox, I would certainly 5 star it.

I will say that what I initially expected to be the biggest issue -- Connecting a database to Retool -- Turned out to be the easiest part of this entire experience. I even found and reported a little bug! One issue I ran into a lot was UX Inconsistency between documentation and the end-user experience. To a lesser extent, instructions were often only written for a certain flavor of SQL -- and it would be foolish to expect documentation based upon the myriad of ways we can connect our data -- but when it came to 1:1 following a guide, it wasn't unusual to run into slight difference in menus that made it frustrating. Customer Support is very busy but also very kind and willing to walk me through some changes; Changes we're still working on. Saving a DB change is turning out to be a herculean task; Unfortunately, not enough people use Retool to get help, (Although there is a community forum!), because we're all confused. Again, to its credit, I can add users through Retool very easily, and was delighted, hopeful that this would be a quick way to build an app. I wonder why it wasn't possible to make it a GUI option; a checkbox that says "Save changes to connected database?". There is both a SQL and a GUI Option, the latter of which is touted as the option that's less prone to error, but I ran into a handful of errors trying to do the option, so it's not simple at the end of the day. If you have more experience building front-facing tools, using APIs, you may find it easier than someone like me, who comes from using back-end cloud services, but still knows enough to teach themselves most things.

Great for cards, promo images, banners, and especially blog images. hate how so much is behind a paywall.