hackathon critique

mission / purpose

• unclear. what is vorstellen suppose to be?
• is it a tool or a plattform?
• just flexing your intellectual muscle? boring.
• are the users part of a collective or guests on the platform
• is the purpose to become literate in the tool?
• approach on operators and operations is facilitating not about who is doing what but rather what is becoming?
• should have many ways to use it. nobody cares about the media is the message.
• allows to create websites / content / communities differently.
• dont compare it to social media

creation

• lacks tools to style content without CSS knowledge
• lacks tools to adjust media files
• current relationship management is too limited
• can not "inline" answer/quote to content elements, only whole fragments.
• embedding of pdfs
• drafting
• collaborating
• commenting
• versions

presentation

• content is difficult to discover
• control the visibility of my fragments
• channels or rooms, set the context in which my fragments exist.
• visualisation of the content, forks, tree

interaction

• little motivation to "answer" later
• no notifications when somebody replied
• it's not possible to set a context. "it needs rooms"
• fragments are never finished, no motivation to read them now

sovereignty

• data sovereignty is unclear.
• how long it will last?
• persistance is important.
• export

engagement

• analytics

structure

• we have to unlearn contemporary structures. its hard but valuable.
• impressum. get rid of footer
• noise vs information ratio.

bugs

• after forking reloading