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Re:Gitter is open source by dj-wonk on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:07PM (#14697663)
This reminds me of something I want to share with HN. I've put a lot of thought into how technologists seem to forget to think about how their tools will be adopted and used in a collective sense. They seem to not design their tools for the end result.

https://medium.com/@xpe/designing-effective-communication-67...

> Can your product provide a great user experience for the group sizes and compositions you want to support?

> Can your product maintain the tone and engagement levels you seek?

Re:Gitter is open source by voltagex_ on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @01:35AM (#14700147)
Probably slightly orthogonal to your post, but @aurynn on Twitter has had some thoughts about UX in relation to open source:

https://twitter.com/aurynn/status/882411143611924480

https://twitter.com/aurynn/status/882036680869371904

Confronting, but accurate.