# Thoughts from the Elm community on Intentional Communication **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [10월 12, 2018, 12:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-from-the-elm-community-on-intentional-communication/99332 "2018-10-12T00:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [10월 12, 2018, 12:03오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-from-the-elm-community-on-intentional-communication/99332/1 "2018-10-12T00:03:21Z")
Fantastic talk by Evan Czaplicki from the [Elm language](https://elm-lang.org/) community based on their experience on reddit and on their own Discourse instance: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/e/e/5ee6d75278b10e8960ce66ba790ebda7cb7ccbcb.jpeg ""The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA) I do wish there had been a bit more time for the end of the talk with the concrete feature suggestions… ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/7/175f82889f0532a7f1bbf63da014ee481676587f.jpeg) … but overall this is a great talk and I recommend it if you’re interested in the community category here on meta 😉 My main piece of advice for Evan is to abandon any significant investment of time in the `/r/elm` Reddit instance. Reddit is good for “what’s hot right now” and “breaking news” but sadly _terrible to the point of being actively harmful_ at _literally everything else involving human discussion_. I can’t emphasize this enough. It’s not that Reddit is bad (although it kinda is) but it’s such a negative return on emotional labor that I’d think twice before spending any time there at all beyond the absolute minimum necessary to have a presence. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-from-the-elm-community-on-intentional-communication/99332)._