I upvoted this because I respect the call to action for the benefit of the DN community.

Yes, please, start upvoting things!

I'm banning as many spammy and self-promo accounts as I can, but that's not helping if nobody votes good content back into the frontpage.

Also, instead of whining about spam, report the post or ... better yet... give me a shoutout on Twitter (campuscodi) or email (catalincimpanu @ gmail dot com) and I'll have it nuked as soon as I can.

You don't even have to start a conversation. Just send me the link to the spammy post and I'll know what to do.

Your ideas are good and sensible, but I have very mixed feelings about putting more effort into a community that has clearly been abandoned by its owners. Especially when they are selling advertising and job postings against our user-generated content.

I like this fresh 2020 energy!

This shit is dead. Just leave it alone.

Here, take my upvote because you care!

Should just move the community elsewhere, not sure why DN's neglected community should be the ones putting the effort into propping up this job board income when the sites owners do nothing.

Let's upvote it all! Great post, and indeed true. Sadly true. A couple of years ago it wasn't a day I wasn't here to read the latest in design, but now, I rarely do it. But as your call to action, let's take action!

the upvote button affordance is very bad, it can be bigger and with a background to look more like a button and more obvious that it's clickable or just make the tap target bigger, not just the arrow

Thanks to @MattHollingsworth for pinning this post to the top of the feed for a while. Many good points, presented in a kind and respectful way. This post is life-giving for this community. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

I'm not voting much because offsite links are set to open in the same tab (while, strangely, onsite links are the opposite). So when I click a link, it goes offsite, I close the tab when I'm done looking and DN is gone. No vote.

Counterintuitive AND counterproductive in one! Reverse that and you'll get more votes.

Thanks for this, Taylor. We agree whole heartedly. We'll continue to fight spam and remove click bait material. Fresh content and upvoting from the community is always the way to help improve the site.

Thanks for being a part of the community : -)

My first thought after I read this - where the hell is upvote button? Why isn't it at the end of the article/post. Why I have to scroll all the way up to find it? Have you considered it as the cause of this problem?

Just my 2c

BTW, The link to this post in my newsletter looks like header, not link. I was lucky that my mouse cursor changed to the pointer when I was scrolling through.

I upvoted because it holds the community accountable

Other than the fact that this site has pretty much been abandoned by the owners for years, is that there actually isn't that much good content about.

Most new articles are either content marketing from a company like InVision, or low-quality 'What I learned in my first 3 days as a UX designer' style posts.

There's only a few people/companies producing high-quality content, maybe because it's hard, and people with the talent to do it tend to be busy.

I wonder if the design/UX field is large enough to support a site like this?

LOL

this got shadow buried

Sounds like a good idea. Will do

I've been commenting and upvoting more often for the same reason. I can't complain about the community dwindling if I'm part of the problem.

I think we should ask ourselves why there aren't very many non-CIS non-identifying males interacting here. It's never really felt like a safe, inclusive space for all, and there is a pile of evidence to support that suspicion.

Great post!

I posted my first Design article here yesterday! https://www.designernews.co/stories/106688-design-at-zego-planning-for-scale#comment-325680

Would love some feedback on it, as we will be updating our journey on how we are implementing our Design System this year.

what do people actually want on here? is it longform writing about ux and the process? lord knows i don't need another poorly written medium article about the basics of something i do every day.

here's an article that really got me thinking, the kind of thing i set aside time to read. i think bret victor's articles are really good. i personally want something thought-provoking. case studies that explain how a particular problem was solved. why a well-known company made a decision. how do i even find that if i'm not using designer news?

i'm a pretty active reddit user but i never upvote things there, i just comment. i don't know why. maybe comment activity is a better indicator of how good something is instead of an upvote? can you get comments on things without upvotes? feels like a catch-22.

1. Post something every now and then
2. Comment on why you are/aren’t upvoting

In short: post more. Although I fully agree, I think there is a bit of a catch 22 we need to break through though.

I agree that there is a lack of engagement among the users here. This is probably the result of high-quality posts being drowned out by spam, and a lack of moderation has led to a sense of apathy. The up (and downvotes, for as long as they lasted) were a way to self-moderate, but they were gamed by the spammers, leading to further disengagement by actual users. So, I don't think just telling people to post more will take away this feeling.