Hey folks, we're launching a new tag called "watercooler"
#watercooler
It's a place for light off-topic chitchat.
For example:
It's not the end of the world if you post stuff that is loosely on-topic in terms of programming, but we'll try to keep this space for posts that are not as much about coding.
We are all developers, professionally or by hobby, but we have lives outside of code. If you're interesting in chatting about anything non-code, stop by the watercooler to chat.
Of course, the code of conduct applies the same in the watercooler tag as anywhere else.
If you don't want to see too many posts from the watercooler, the way to currently do that is to first follow the tag and then give it a negative weight in /dashboard/following.
I know that's counter-intuitive but that's currently the best way to do that.
Happy coding!
Top comments (13)
Hey Calin,
one time I heard from creating a water cooler for remote collaboration was in the Remote book from the Basecamp guys.
These are the tips for collaborating remotely mentioned in that book, taken from this review:
Not sure if that's the real origin of it, though.
Oh, by the way. We're looking for watercooler mods. Anyone interested?
more info on tag modding: dev.to/tag-moderation
I don't mind taking that!
I am interested in doing that :)
Y'all are going to have to make sure the water cooler is topped up though 😉
Yay!
You’re welcome to make one of the first posts 😄
Really apt name.. #watercooler 😁
Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well
Am I going crazy or did this launch a while ago too?
It went live a little while ago but we didn’t take the final steps to make it an officially supported tag.
We actually wrote some code to make this tag show up less in the feed if you don’t follow because we didn’t want it to bother folks who are here just for technical stuff.
We might want to add the note about hiding the tag directly on the tag page for anyone who misses this post. Whaddyathink?
Yeah we should