I wanted to learn how to make a javascript widget, so I came to this idea.
If you would like to receive voice messages from your visitors, give it a try. It can add more interactivity to your website.
I mean, for example, if you want to receive feedback from your website visitors or customers you can put (on the contact page) your email and phone number which go to your voicemail.
For now, nothing. It's a problem of the user who submitted the post. If he submits a post about "node.js" and give it just tags "programming" and "web-development", it's just his problem because people who are interested in node.js will not see his post. And, probably, it also means that quality of a post is not so good.
It's about filtering posts submitted by users on Tagmask.
Tagmask is a community site for programmers.
So, content should be created by users. It's a problem of chicken and egg.
> How are tags assigned/chosen?
If you submit a post you should give it correct tags. For example, if you submit a post about some algorithm on PHP you should attach to it tags "php" and "algorithm". And in this way any user who subscribed to tag "php" or "algorithm" will see it in his feed.
> I'm drawn to things that transcend any particular language
You have control over it. You can add to your filter tags "algorithms", "programming", "compilers" and see more wide set of posts. In addition, you can exclude posts with unwanted tags. For example, you can see posts with the tag "web-development" except posts with tags "php", "asp.net" etc.
Actually, no. I just wanted to share this idea of tag-based approach and to get a few comments that it's absolutely stupid and useless, and I should stop working on it.
I am working on Tagmask for over a year and I am almost burned, it seems that it's absolutely useless idea because nobody cares.
Thank you for your comment. Now I'll stop posting on HN.
Part 1: http://youtu.be/l_b228qEVi8
Part 2: http://youtu.be/F90BRJHXsVI