As I have said before, you are my peeps:
@codinghorror said:
I truly don't, though! I like this community. Angry programmers is my bread and butter. This is my people, man. You are my people.
Bring it in. Right here.
http://youtu.be/0ZvarRe-XVQ
If nothing else, you guys are amazing software testers:
@codinghorror said:
Possibly, but the number of communities we have with this high a level of engagement on Discourse is very small. And very few of them have the same technical skill and testing (and frankly, the justified hatred and suspicion of bad software that WTF implies) backgrounds necessary to dig out pernicious, long term bugs in Discourse.
(it is weird the Ember.js community was not better at this with their Discourse instance.)
I am sure over time as we iron issues out there will be less need (or even desire) to be fully engaged on wtf, but I for one think the TDWTF community has done more to improve Discourse than anything since boing boing. This deserves our attention because a) they have uncovered a ton of very legit bugs and b) I want to demonstrate that we are really serious about fixing them.
Also c) this is exactly the kick in the ass we need on the run-up to shipping V1.
Thanks for that collective kick in the ass -- we needed it, as V1 is coming. Discourse is an open source project, now and forever, that we hope benefits discussion across the entire web. All your suggestions, bugs, and improvements go directly back to the rest of the world, for free, forever. Thank you for being a part of it.
To show our appreciation for your testing efforts here, and for all the great bugs you guys uncovered -- we're happy to send anyone who wants them a set of free stickers: Discourse, Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange. Just fill out this brief Google Doc so we know where to mail them:
https://docs.google.com/a/discourse.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dC1ELWpPMGtaMElmTS11VnE1SF8yanc6MA
WTF has been on Discourse almost 60 days now. We believe most of the major issues are resolved, so we're now closing the door on this chapter of our involvement in tdwtf -- the Discourse team members will move on.
In the future, we won't be around on this site except extremely sporadically, so please escalate bugs to http://meta.discourse.org if you feel they are serious enough to warrant our attention.
So long -- and thanks for all the bugs.
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