Community Tools Are Broken
I'm often quite surprised at the low quality and lack of innovation around community tooling. It seems like the default setup for online communities is centered around a private Discord server and a Patreon page.
This is nice at first. Then it gets overwhelming. The thing is that it just doesn't scale very well. I've been very diligent about the amount of channels I join but still I am currently a member of six different Discord servers—each with 30+ different channels. Quite a lot of them are on a completely different timezone than I am which means I am rarely able to fully participate in the discussions.
It’s not a place for me to engage as a fan or as a community member. It’s just another source of inbox stress. It’s almost like we are replicating what we do to organise work to foster communities. The thing is that communities are not like implementing a button at work, it’s much more than that. And it requires tools that can facilitate just that. Please, no more inboxes. They suck.
I still can’t believe there are no community tools out there that helps us be a better community.
This is post 1 out of 1000. I have a stupid goal of writing 1000 unedited 200-word-posts.