I wanted to start a post where we can quickly collect feedback from all the active users of the Polkadot Forum, and think about some ways we can continue to improve this conversation platform.
Let’s use this post as a way to just dump ideas, whether they be very practical and easy to do, or something that is complex and may require a lot of development work and engineering.
All ideas welcome, although no promises that ANY idea will be implemented.
This post will be CLOSED in 1 week to keep the volume of suggestions limited, but expect another one of these to pop up in maybe 6 months.
That being said, remember that we have a whole section where you can start a discussion on suggestions to the Forum at any time:
My suggestion is to dedicate one category to hands-on guides or tutorials.
In my experiment showcased here: Getting started using Rust and subxt for Polkadot data extraction - #3 by Karim the Polkadot Forum has a relatively high Domain Authority for all things Polkadot which we could encourage leveraging a little bit more, in parallel of creating dedicated websites for the purpose of teaching. The advantage of the forum is that it wouldn’t involve any overhead of setting up a new website.
The option remains still open though, the posts under this category could also be used to link to the dedicated websites, helping them a little bit with ranking, assuming of course that the user making the post has high enough ranking for dofollowtype links.
An added benefit is that a forum encourages discussion & exchange, keeping things maintained and updated is easier as the curation process happens organically (or by admins directly).
I think what’s missing is a dedicated place for builders experimenting with Polkadot and its tech offerings. A place that can be referred to when we do hackathons, so that builders can see interesting things to be built being discussed and get support from the community if they decide to borrow ideas from there.
We made a few posts to this effect recently, but from my past experience trying to move the needle on Polkadot builder culture in this direction, these posts get buried away and forgotten.
One improvement would be to rethink how the categories are devised. Tech talk and Ecosystem have clear overlaps for e.g. I think in general, our categories could be improved to make it clearer to guide different users of the forum on where to dive into what with a little more granularity.
Activate a section for communities, where any user can create their own community within the forum. Projects and all the collectives in the ecosystem would make great use of it to discuss the topics that concern them.
I would love to see this idea expanded to sub categories of documentation for topics. Such as the Multi-Sig tutorials or the video Leemo is going to make me for new DAO’s and how to set-up voting delegations in Open Gov with the bot…
You go into your user settings, and select Color Scheme: Polkadot Dark.
You might also need to disable Enable automatic dark mode color scheme, which will actually turn your scheme into Polkadot Light if your computer has a “light theme”.
my post. I think more people would interact with a notification system.
