Why Users and Developers get separate sides
Why the Geenius Community keeps people who use Geenius apart from people who build on them, how the sides work and why each feed stays on topic.
Open any busy community and you can watch two conversations fight over one feed. Somebody asks how to share a document with a colleague. Two posts down, someone is arguing about token refresh in an OpenID Connect client. Both are right to be there. Neither belongs in the other's feed.
The Geenius Community answers this with sides.
Two rooms, not two filters#
Users is the home of everyone who uses Geenius OS and its apps. Developers is the home of everyone who builds on Geenius Kit, on the app registry and on the open core. Each side has its own channels and its own feed. A post lives in exactly one channel of one side, and search works on one side at a time. They never mix, because they are not tags on one stream: they are separate rooms with separate rules of thumb.
Six channels each#
Users has Announcements, Help and questions, How-tos, What I made, Feedback and General. Developers has Announcements, Dev questions, Tutorials, Built on Geenius, Ideas and proposals, and Open core. The names tell you what belongs there, and the channel's kind decides what a post is: a question has an accepted answer, a tutorial has a series and a cover, a showcase has a cover.
Join one, or both#
Reading a side is open, so you can look around before you commit. Posting on a side you have not joined takes one tap. If you build and use, you join both and switch with one control. Announcements notify only the people on that side, so a release note for the registry does not ping someone who just wants help with a document.
What this costs#
Two sides means two places to look, and in a community this small that can feel like too much structure. We chose it because it is easier to merge two rooms later than to split one that has grown noisy. If you disagree, there is a feedback channel on the Users side, and the contact form on this site.
What it does not do#
Sides are not private groups. Everything on a side is visible to people who can read it. They are also not a way to keep people out: the same plan opens both. The rule that holds them together is the first house rule: be kind, and disagree with ideas, never with people.
Read how sides work or go straight to getting started.