New community section for showing off your devices?

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#1

I really like the products you guys make. Lurking the community here, there are a lot of threads on bug fixes and technical difficulties, which makes sense because that’s a necessary part of it all, but there’s not a lot of sharing of people using their devices. Wonder if a couple of things might make these forums a bit more engaging?

Thing number 1 - I’d like to see what other users are doing with their devices. I want to see how people are plugging it into their other gear. I backed the kickstarter to get a Wizard and an Alchemist, but know nothing of how the Magus actually went or what people are doing with it. After realising that the categories view exists, I saw that there is a section for “videos”, but I feel like that is too specific. I’ll make a thread to see if there’s interest, but on most other forums I’ve been on these “show off your gear” type sections are good value.

Thing number 2 - personally I’d prefer that the community landing page was Rebel Technology, because it provides new users with a better overview of what kind of discussions might be going on - and it also includes latest posts on the right anyway. Latest posts will often be technical difficulties, so the (not necessarily true) impression I get from landing on the “latest” tab by default is that most people are having technical difficulties.

#2

Having used other Discourse sites in the past, I immediately navigated to /categories when I arrived here, as many of them have chosen it to be the landing page. I agree that it would be a better one; it includes what is on the current page, plus more.

#3

If you want more people to make demos of stuff that they run on their devices, you should lead by example and make one (or a few) yourself. I think this would be way more motivating.

#4

Oh yeah, I fully intend to once I have something I’m happy to share. Or perhaps that’s everyone’s barrier :stuck_out_tongue: That’s pretty much what lead me to making this post, if I were to post a photo / diagram then I’d be a little stumped as to where to put it. Videos have a section so I could just do that

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#5

Even if you’re just figuring out things, documenting this process could be fairly useful for others. This happened before, i.e.: Magus patch projects log . If more people did that, at least it would be easier to compile a FAQ about most common issues that new users run into. Don’t worry about categorization too much - tags can always be added as necessary.

Also, if you feel like documenting one of platforms for building patches, it could probably be added here - GitHub - pingdynasty/OpenWareLab: Documentation for the OWL family of devices. . Currently it has only docs about hardware devices, but I think Owl-specific software docs belong there as well. Currently I’m preparing some info about writing patches in Faust for that repo.

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#6

Sure, I’ll do that. Your reply seems to apply more to the other thread I was commenting in (Pure data - list of supported objects? - #16 by dxinteractive), was it intended to go there? Either way its a great idea.

#7

Good idea, here it is:

okay so figured out how to do this: in Discourse you have to edit the top menu items and put the one you want as landing page first. Done! Let’s try it out, let me know if you do/don’t prefer it like this.

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#8

Awesome thanks, yeah I like the landing page more now, keen to hear what others think.

I’ll post something in the showcase soon.