I'll start.
I want posts about quality extensions that aren't well known. Things that people use often and enjoy. Maybe they should have less than 100,000 installs or so. Certainly nothing with 1M or more installs. Most of us know about Prettier already. For example, I use the patricklee.vsnotes extension daily. It's great! I'll probably create a post about it regardless.
Hidden gem threads! We could periodically ask folks to comment in posts about what extensions are vscode's best kept secret and why for rotating criterions and or categories.
Yup, that's exactly what I'm thinking. I like that name. Let's stick with it. I can make the first since I have a good example. At least, I think it is ๐คฃ
Nice job creating this community!
I'm always interested to hear in any tips or tricks, or just in general workflows people have found work for them.
VSCode is my main editor, but I feel I haven't explored or learned it's features as much as I could (I could really do with learning some more keyboard shortcuts). Anything to remind me or help me with that would be super cool :)
Oh interesting. Like a "beyond the basics" post to discuss advanced features? I like the idea! Probably needs a better name ๐
I think it would be neat if new features are highlighted, and maybe also lesser known ones that already exist.
I try to read the release notes whenever I upgrade but sometimes I miss it.
Are you thinking of a tldr for monthly patch note posts?
Ah I missed that you proposed monthly patch notes, that is pretty much what I would like!
Well you're the first to say it in the comments. That's official as far as I'm concerned
We could have collabs with other communities on the instance, such as mega threads to discuss developer setups and vscode configurations for the programming language or framework that is the topic of focus for the other collabing community. E.g. if I'm a Python, or a Rust developer, I'd like to annually synchronize with all the other vscode users in my sub domain about what new extensions they're using for the language, what kind of Dev containers configuration are they using amongst their development team, are there any major ergonomic improvements they discovered over the last year. If we did that for every language or framework hosted on this instance and space it out over a year, that could keep the community fairly active.
Maybe some periodic posts like monthly patch notes?
The patch notes can get rather long, with so much detail and pages of updates. It'd be nice to have a monthly mega thread when those get released to discuss and highlight the most notable features and share commentary and clarifications about changes. I never manage to read those all the way through, so I feel like Im always missing something. A monthly mega thread linked to patch notes when published, with folks up voting the hottest features in the comments, would help to stay on top of it all.
That makes sense. That could easily be wrapped into a monthly patch notes thread. Maybe a copy/paste of the change summary?
Yeah, then people could comment with links to the exact heading of the feature or change they wanted to bring up, e.g. what they've been long awaiting for, or what they don't understand why would it be a big deal.