What specifically has changed for you? I have noticed that using the curation tools to select feeds that I resonate with and following people has really improved my user experience. My next experiment is to take the leap from being a lurker / consumer of content to starting to write my own posts. I hope this will continue to improve my experience and I have a feeling that it will
30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
I think it's the poison of popularity, over the last few months I've seen an increasing amount of marketing content from bigger players, and as others have noted an awful lot of '500 things you must know...' attention whoring articles, many with just links to medium or wherever. At the same time, new people asking honest questions (albeit repeating others from the past, and possibly annoying long timers) who receive a dressing down (Stack Overflow style) rather than helpful links to previous articles or similar.
Edited to answer your point on filtering - yes, I can try and filter out the junk, much as I would on Facebook or Twitter, however for me that is "admitting defeat" that the community culture has failed / lost it's purpose and is just another watering hole for exploitation.
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What specifically has changed for you? I have noticed that using the curation tools to select feeds that I resonate with and following people has really improved my user experience. My next experiment is to take the leap from being a lurker / consumer of content to starting to write my own posts. I hope this will continue to improve my experience and I have a feeling that it will
I think it's the poison of popularity, over the last few months I've seen an increasing amount of marketing content from bigger players, and as others have noted an awful lot of '500 things you must know...' attention whoring articles, many with just links to medium or wherever. At the same time, new people asking honest questions (albeit repeating others from the past, and possibly annoying long timers) who receive a dressing down (Stack Overflow style) rather than helpful links to previous articles or similar.
Edited to answer your point on filtering - yes, I can try and filter out the junk, much as I would on Facebook or Twitter, however for me that is "admitting defeat" that the community culture has failed / lost it's purpose and is just another watering hole for exploitation.