In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about community building online — some of the different software techniques and things you can do to either get started with a web community or join one.

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Show Notes

7:16 - Chat options

Slack
Discord
Level Up Tutorials Discord
Faster communication

9:00 - Forum based

Indexable
Searchable
Slower communication
Discourse
Spectrum
Facebook groups
Reddit
Syntax Reddit

27:27 - Commenting systems

YouTube comments
Comments systems in general

Links

Github
Slack
Discord
Discourse
Spectrum
Reddit
r/reactjs

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