Hasty Treat - Building A Community Slack, Discord, Spectrum, Discourse, Forums
Jan 27, 2020•31 min
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Episode description
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about community building online — some of the different software techniques and things you can do to either get started with a web community or join one.
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Show Notes7:16 - Chat options
- Slack
- Discord
- Level Up Tutorials Discord
- Faster communication
9:00 - Forum based
- Indexable
- Searchable
- Slower communication
- Discourse
- Spectrum
- Facebook groups
- Syntax Reddit
27:27 - Commenting systems
- YouTube comments
- Comments systems in general
- Scott’s Instagram
- LevelUpTutorials Instagram
- Wes’ Instagram
- Wes’ Twitter
- Wes’ Facebook
- Scott’s Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
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