Spectrum is a new platform for you to join, start and build online communities.
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Slick and clean material design and amazing UI.
I think a crucial role here is played by the search feature, if it will be good it will put the product few level higher than all the competitors.
Great Job!
Slack communities don’t really work. We’ve jumped on a great team tool and used it for everything! However, it proved the need for better community tools. Really excited to see this one grow. Nice work 🙌
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Excellent job - that's lovely! :)
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It's kind of dead. No update in a year, basically since GitHub took over. Restricted to GitHub accounts only. So its only usable for Dev Communities :(
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I have tried it and I like it, it offers many opportunities to contact people of your sector and interests.
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Good design work. The idea of converting the old-fashioned "forums" into "spectrum" is a good evolution.
Cons:
Tip: The community finder would make it wider and more social, so you can see the communities in cards.
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The main objective is discussion, but it opens in a sidebar popup. How UX friendly is it?
@brian_lovin@mxstbr
@mxstbr@brian_lovin When clicking on titles on any forum, it opens a popup with all the comments / replies from the right side. That's where the discusion happens. Somehow it looks weired to me as it looks like a secondary action. Better to be on a separate page to give more importance and room instead of that popup.
Hope you got my point!
Example: https://spectrum.chat/spectrum?t...
~Surjith
This is so cool! Have you thought of embeddable communities (for other people's to embed in their sites) as a service?
Just my lil grain of sand. Looks Good!
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Explored this product as a potential future option for our open source community. However, it was lack luster and underbaked. We currently use Slack and can't find any reason to explore Spectrum beyond my initial investigation.
Pros:
-Accounts created with big three sign-on integrations (Twitter, Facebook, Google)
Cons:
- The user journey for exploring communities is wack
- The UX for topics and threads is underwhelming and irritating
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I've been using the website and following github project for a while. I strong believe this product will replace the stack overflow someday. Keep the good work guys :D
Pros:
Good idea, easy to follow many useful threads and well organized than Overflow
Cons:
The design and navigation still quite complicated, give the website some space to breathe would be better
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I have tried it and I like it, it offers many opportunities to contact people of your sector and interests.
Pros:Good design work. The idea of converting the old-fashioned "forums" into "spectrum" is a good evolution.
Cons:Tip: The community finder would make it wider and more social, so you can see the communities in cards.
Campsite
Support open-source projects not these junkz.
Pros:Nope
Cons:No selfhosted option
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Explored this product as a potential future option for our open source community. However, it was lack luster and underbaked. We currently use Slack and can't find any reason to explore Spectrum beyond my initial investigation.
Pros:-Accounts created with big three sign-on integrations (Twitter, Facebook, Google)
Cons:- The user journey for exploring communities is wack
- The UX for topics and threads is underwhelming and irritating
I've been using the website and following github project for a while. I strong believe this product will replace the stack overflow someday. Keep the good work guys :D
Pros:Good idea, easy to follow many useful threads and well organized than Overflow
Cons:The design and navigation still quite complicated, give the website some space to breathe would be better