Daniel Gultsch

1 week ago

Daniel Gultsch
1 week ago

„The features matter a lot less than the people who are using the platform. […]

It can sometimes be a bit misleading when you get a lot of ideas and feature requests in a community, and the conversations become, ‘We definitely need feature X to grow because that’s what’s stopping people from using the platform.‘ While that’s true in some cases, the sad reality is that any flaw can be overlooked as long as the people you want to reach are there.“

This feels true for #Conversations_im as well.

#conversations_im

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Dusty

in reply to Daniel Gultsch 1 week ago

I feel that a platform needs to have an absence of annoying bugs first and foremost. Additional fancy features (as in OP) might *initially* attract new users, but it's an absence of such embarrassing bugs which keeps them there longer term. And people giving up on a failed attempt at a new platform is very costly to one's social capital, to ever recommend any new platform ever again, and be taken seriously.