The social engineering behind Discourse and creating healthy conversations

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Here’s a great talk from one of the founders of Discourse about the thinking and social engineering ideas that went into the design of Discourse (what this site is using):

Lots of great ideas about how to build effective communication in communities

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another nice talk about engineering healthy conversations: https://thestrangeloop.com/2018/the-hard-parts-of-open-source.html

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Both great talks! Evan expanded on some of his ideas from “The Hard Parts of Open Source” in the thread in meta-discourse in which Jeff Atwood shared the talk as well:


There are also two posts from the Elm community on this topic I found very valuable:

(Apologies for the link dump, but hopefully others who watch the talks will also be thirsty to learn more!)

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