Share your feedback and ideas for Discussions

I have a bunch of ideas but don't want to skew anyone's opinion so I'll 🤐😊.

@abadesi @rrhoover as a maker, this is something that is very much needed within the global community. Right now, we are all a bit fragmented and lack a unified platform. I appreciate the progress that you guys have made and how much you are willing to listen to the community. One of my suggestions would be to create a mac app to where it lives on desktops instead of having to go to the producthunt website.

It's important for founders/makers to have a corner on PH where they could freely ask questions or spark a discussion. This was a missing piece imo because PH Ask is more specific to products/recommendations. I like that Discussions feels very open and general, you are free to discuss just about anything as long as it's within the listed guidelines. Soon many discussions will be had so a way to filter through them by topic or popularity would be useful. I do think it's important to keep Discussions simple. Quality over quantity (not very impressed with how PH Ask has progressed, slowed activity and lots of spam). Allow users to leave comments or have specific discussions about projects listed in the "Projects" tab. Instead of having a live chat for each Maker Space, could we get Discussions dedicated to each space? I think Discussions will work better. Example: Makers Toronto has 100+ members yet very few goals have been set and no activity in the live chat for that particular space. People are taking the initiative to join the space, but once they've been accepted they are not coming back to do much at all. This could be unique to the Toronto Space as I do see a lot more goal setting activity for other spaces that i've joined. I'll post again if any new ideas/suggestions pop up.

@abadesi @rrhoover echoing the gratitude - already, this forum is proving its worth. May seem trivial in the grand scheme of things but I found myself looking for a way to bookmark a discussion today. So, some mechanism to easily retrieve threads à la Discourse would be swell.

@abadesi implementing polls so people can have quick feedback and test some micro ideas?

@abadesi A dedicated section for self promotion 😬 On a more serious note, a section that's based on your startup: "from zero to one"