Why do I have to go to Reddit, to Twitter, to Facebook to find official information that should have been posted on Spectrum?
TL;DRInformation goes out across many platforms because people absorb it differently, and much of what appears on Reddit, Twitter or Facebook is repurposed from videos, streams or Spectrum posts.
Okay, so that's a really good question. One of the things we like to do with our communication style is to be adaptive to some degree. What that means is while Spectrum has a lot of good information, announcements, Ask a Dev, or even frequently developers hanging out in the live chats discussing mechanics or accepting the latest feedback, we also work to provide information on a variety of other platforms that our community uses as well. Now the reason we do this is because everybody absorbs information in different ways. While one person may prefer a text post, another prefers a video, and another may prefer something more interactive like a livestream. So what we try to do is utilize all the tools that we have in our belt to be as accommodating as possible for everyone in our community. And so what this allows is actually some really cool things like getting to send developers to community-run events like BritizenCon, Bar Citizens, getting to do a cool article in a magazine, just to really reach everyone in our community in a variety of ways. So yeah, we do a lot of cool things. For example, a lot of our developers will take the time to actually go on our community's podcasts and videos. And so that's really what it comes down to: it's not that we don't use Spectrum. It's not that we don't use Facebook or Twitter. It's that we try to use a variety of ways to communicate. For example, a number of shows like this one. So information is everywhere and we try to be accommodating.
Yeah, and a lot of the information that you see on Twitter or Facebook is repurposed information that was presented elsewhere, either in one of our videos or on a Spectrum post. So it's reaching out to as many people on as many different platforms as we can. And I think it's served us very well over the last couple of years. And of course, for anyone that's like, you don't spend time on Spectrum, talk to Matt Sherman, Phantom of Spectrum.
I was about to say, that's who comes to mind as soon as you think about Spectrum chat.
Living up in the rafters of Spectrum, waiting for somebody to say something and then rappelling down and saying, ah, here's the information.
And it's funny, you mentioned information coming from Reddit. Well, we're not actively posting information on Reddit. A lot of the information that you may see on Reddit comes from places like our videos, our streams, Matt Sherman on Spectrum.
So our community is such an important part of disseminating our message. And a lot of the stuff gets repurposed to all those things. So we use everything, in every way and every shape that we can. And I think we'll continue to do that in the future because it's served us so well.