ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

What would make Grapevine more helpful?

Good folks of Grapevine,

I’m actively thinking of things we could do to make the community more helpful.

Being helpful for working professionals (in work & life) is our reason to exist. Want to make sure we stay true to it over the course.

Some things that are top of mind for me basis recent interactions: Better Referral Matching, Better Matching for Questions (ensuring right people view the question and can answer).

Can you folks help with more ideas & suggestions? Something that you would have done if you were running Grapevine?

Thanks in advance, look forward to your thoughts :)

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CosmicMarshmallow
CosmicMarshmallow

implement a “not interested” button for posts that doesn’t align with user’s interests. i would love to use this app more but my feed is mostly just irrelevant stuff that i can’t get rid of.

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Very fair Currently the only option to choose content is to subscribe/unsubscribe from communities But that doesn’t solve this

Shared this with our team, and will make sure we do something here! Thank you.

WigglyRaccoon
WigglyRaccoon

Make use of grapes. Coz the app is totally based on that which at the end results nothing makes no sense

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

We currently do use grapes to give people early access to products eg news

But definitely, currently grapes exist only to show that a user is a valuable contributor to the community
Over time, we’ll think of how more grapes can mean more access/perks for people :)

SquishyPanda
SquishyPanda

@UnpaidIntern

  1. A community of developers discussing engineering related stuff based on their knowledge or discussion about the RnD they did. Like making a RF robot.
  2. Mobile phones and laptops reviews community.
  3. Page about government policies and their growth focus. Example Atal pension Yojana. Semiconductor. So on...
ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

@threadpool

  1. This was the goal with the software engineering community originally. I think this needs a community which is more specific, and follows strict rules for only relevant posts. I'll add this to tasks!
  2. Gadgets & Apps exists for this use case. Let's ramp it up? :)
  3. Interesting. Would want this without unnecessary political debates. Lemme deliberate on this.

Thanks so much for adding these!

FluffyWaffle
FluffyWaffle

Downvoting. Some come on this platform with an agenda of spreading insensitive posts aimed at farming for grapes by stirring up controversy. Having a downvote would have the community actively participate in suppressing such nonsense

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

We'd gotten it in, then missed it in redesigns and never took it into account to manage feeds better 🫣 Adding it to to-dos. Thanks boss.

FluffyWaffle
FluffyWaffle

Lovely to hear that. Thanks 🎀

WigglyPenguin
WigglyPenguin

1.. Don't allow posting one post to more than one community. 2.. Allow to unfollow a post, i.e the post/comment i don't want any notification from.

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Hmm the spamming does happen quite often
People also make minor change before posting again.

We currently comb recent and remove duplicates. I’ll make sure at least the logic for duplicates is made (minor changes we’ll do manually I guess)

On 2:

Is this unfollow after you follow a post?
That does work… or is this something else?

WigglyPenguin
WigglyPenguin

Unfollow after i comment on a post/thread

GroovyCupcake
GroovyCupcake
TCS3mo

I would make the web portal current with the app features and add rich text to the web portal

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Ah yes this is a big one Web is many many months behind app

We are changing this for sure. Web is an important surface for us long term, we will ensure this gets more love! Thanks @Jocker.

GroovyCupcake
GroovyCupcake
TCS3mo

I often make mistakes while typing and only discover this after posting. Is there a way to allow editing for posts and comments. It would also allow one to add context should he have missed it the first time

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Hmm you're right I face this too I currently just copy and then edit and post again

But I agree edit will be a better way to fix it. Maybe within a certain time period. I am making a doc from this thread so these don't get missed. Thanks for taking out time and writing @Jocker!

ZippyPotato
ZippyPotato

Launch salaries product again

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

It’s up @VioletMovie
Are you unable to access it?

WobblyBagel
WobblyBagel

A separate category for senior level and above folks. There is a dearth of discussion on that in Indian context.

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Hmm you're right. Will have to think how to make sure conversations remain amongst senior folks. DO you think a community would work? Or some other intervention needed here?

WobblyBagel
WobblyBagel

A separate community is definitely a good choice. Also a better reward on increased engagement, since when you are higher in career, you won't wanna engage in bullshit.

ZestyNoodle
ZestyNoodle

You guys should really declutter the app. There is so much bs posts related to marriage, this, that etc. Things one might not be interested in at all. I use grape wine only for career related posts, and would like it to remain such. There should be different subs for other stuff

ZoomyBanana
ZoomyBanana

Hey hey @GenerousDeathwatch We have a community structure within the app. There are career communities and then there are non work communities 'Adulting', 'Gadgets', ' Sports' etc.

In case you spot communities where posts you don't like come from, you can unsubscribe. Let me know in case this helps?

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