Hey there graceful devs,
Today's site news update is dedicated entirely to a look at the results of the Focus Survey I mailed out last week. I asked what y'all, the members, would most like to see me focus on next, and you answered!
Specifically, 41 of you answered. Let's see what you had to say...
| Item | Total Score | Aggregate Rank |
| New courses on new topics not covered before | 173 | 1 |
| Extracting cohesive, topical courses from The Tapastry | 149 | 2 |
| Adding content to existing courses | 133 | 3 |
| Site features/improvements | 86 | 4 |
| Growing the community/social aspect | 74 | 5 |
The first thing I take away from this result is that (almost) nobody cares about social features. This is actually great to know, because it means that's one area I don't need to think about for a while. Good signal!
The second thing is that while there are still some nice-to-have feature requests, my sense that the site basically works for people seems confirmed.
"New courses" and "extracting courses" ran neck-and-neck for a while, but "new courses" eventually pulled ahead. I'll be honest, I have a personal preference to spend some time teasing courses out of the Tapastry, because that's been on my mental want-to-do list for, like, half a decade. So I may still start out with that. But I hear you loud and clear: new courses, on new topics!
And what new topics might those be? Well, let's see how you answered...
I threw a couple dozen potential topics at the wall. Every single one got at least one vote. The top five were:
The big takeaway here is that Graceful.Dev members are more interested in design and method than in programming languages. Good to know!
However, for my own edification as a programming language dork, I'm going to narrow it down to the just the language-specific options and see what came out on top:
There was a clear winner here: systems thinking! This makes me happy, since it's what I spend a lot of my time thinking about these days. It's also the topic of a series of workshops Jessitron has been co-teaching with Kent Beck, so I think more content in that vein should be doable.
I read you loud and clear on this one: stick with the tried-and-true RubyTapas format of video-centric topics!
The survey contained several prompts for elaboration. Some highlights and commentary, in no order:
I don't have a plan per se, but the results of this survey have given me some solid direction. The results have been super enlightening, and I really appreciate some of the kind notes some of y'all included.
Thanks again to everyone who filled in the survey! If you didn't, you're still welcome to add your two cents--I'll continue to reference back to it as I prioritize my work going forwards.
Cheers,
Avdi
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