> the domain, if you look at it really quickly, appears to almost be 'metalmaniac'
The domain name confuses people a lot, I've actually received similar comments before. Terrible naming choice from my side.
> Where does the 'Reddit for programmers' originate?
I thought it was a reasonable analogy to describe the site. Since it's essentially subreddits+chat for programming topics. The other alternative is "An online community for programmers", which is what I have on the landing page currently. I'm still experimenting with different taglines.
I agree that there are already (very good) solutions for the problem I am trying to solve, it's just that it's a broken experience (or so I thought), jumping between stackoverflow, hn, reddit, irc. I thought there is value in providing this experience under a single site in the hope that it becomes a more welcoming place for beginners.
Regarding the chat part, yeah it does allow realtime trolling, but I have not had much traffic so far. One solution is to just set the tone for the community and be hard on trolls with shadow banning and even banning. As you said, having good moderators is also necessary.
Thanks for the feedback.
The domain name confuses people a lot, I've actually received similar comments before. Terrible naming choice from my side.
> Where does the 'Reddit for programmers' originate?
I thought it was a reasonable analogy to describe the site. Since it's essentially subreddits+chat for programming topics. The other alternative is "An online community for programmers", which is what I have on the landing page currently. I'm still experimenting with different taglines.
I agree that there are already (very good) solutions for the problem I am trying to solve, it's just that it's a broken experience (or so I thought), jumping between stackoverflow, hn, reddit, irc. I thought there is value in providing this experience under a single site in the hope that it becomes a more welcoming place for beginners.
Regarding the chat part, yeah it does allow realtime trolling, but I have not had much traffic so far. One solution is to just set the tone for the community and be hard on trolls with shadow banning and even banning. As you said, having good moderators is also necessary.
Thanks for the feedback.