This is the fifth State of Hubski. Let's do something we haven't before:
Perhaps we should do this every year.
Yesterday thenewgreen posted a summary of 2015 which you should listen to.
tng's summary does a fine job of addressing my thoughts and feelings regarding what has happened in the community over the past year. It is no exaggeration to say that this place has enabled friendships that I could not have had otherwise.
Five years ago, I had an inclination that a rare kind of space could exist on the internet, and that anyone could be a part of it. You all have proved that possible. I am constantly surprised by what people bring to this site, and the conversations and collaborations that result.
From a technical standpoint, one of the most significant things that happened this year is that rob05c joined the team. As #devski indicates, good things are afoot. Reading over previous State of Hubski posts, I realized that we have been promising an API for about 4 years. To be honest, I made some mistakes in the last two of years that resulted in significant development delays. Specifically, in 2014 we embarked upon a rewrite of the site that was too ambitious for our team's part-time capacity. As a result, forwardslash and insomniasexx spent much time and effort on work that you never got to see. This was a painful experience. In 2015, we corrected our course, and forwardslash and insomniasexx didn't kill me.
More generally speaking, we have learned a lot in this past five years, and IMO 2015 has found us on firmer footing. Hubski is growing up. Questions have been answered. It has become increasingly clear what this corner of the internet is all about.
That's not to say that we aren't going to be experimenting. Hubski is always a work in progress, and there are changes in store for 2016.
On that note, forwardslash has a New Year's gift for you all: https://hubski.com/irc
Thanks for being part of Hubski in 2015. You make this place what it is.
The State of Hubski is good this New Years Eve of 2015.
Happy New Year, Hubski!
Cheers!
So I went and put together the Best of Hubski list. I am sure I missed some, so feel free to add to it in replies below. ------------------------------------------------ View all as a list ------------------------------------------------ Best Posts of 2015 Alex Rodriguez's return to the New York Yankees Back to the Future, Time Travel, and the Secret History of the 1980s Class Dismissed: A Roundtable on Art School, USC and Cooper Union Dying alone in New York City Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla | Bloomberg Business Lecture 17: Fun With the Anthropic Principle "No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" Neuroscience: Crammed with connections Personality Insights about You Delivered by IBM's Watson “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” Rudyard Kipling Interviews Mark Twain The Billionaire’s Typewriter: The Battle Between Medium and Publishing Freedom The End of Dating: Tinder and Hook Up Culture The exemplary narcissism of Snoopy The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans - Tom Mahood, otherhand.org The Lonely End: In aging Japan, thousands die alone and unnoticed every year. The Web We Have to Save The Zipf Mystery - Vsauce Top Blue Jays Prospect Daniel Norris Lives By His own Code. Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person Why America’s obsession with STEM education is dangerous ------------------------------------------------ Best Discussions / Debates of 2015 20 years from now what will you have wish you had done? America's struggle Pubski: March 25, 2015 Pubski: September 23, 2015 Solar Storms Strip Air from Mars, NASA Says The Repugnant Conclusion What Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Kanye West Say About the Black Experience in America What is the Dark and How Do We Push It Back? by lil Why Rape Is Sincerely Hilarious Why She Slept With You: The Unapologetic Cheater Your formative years, your productive years , your reflective years, Your job will never love you. ------------------------------------------------ Best Comments / Text Based Posts of 2015 AnSionnachRua on our internet personalities cgod: I opened my coffee shop yesterday... coffeesp00ns on gender Complexity on does amazing Grubski Corvus: Artificial Neural Networks with Corvus: Part 1! Cumol: The one state solution francopoli on the shittiness of science reporting insomniasexx on readings on what to do with your life insomniasexx: One year & two weeks ago today, I put in my two weeks notice with no real plan in place. kleinbl00 on Hubski's following system lil on feminism mk on freedom of discussion mk on why the social aggregator is a terrible business model mk: PSA: Welcome to Hubski, Redditors.