A community around what you know and what you are working on
Some of what you know is worth more outside your team than inside it, and some of what you want to work on is already being worked on by somebody else. Communities, following and Discover are how the two find each other.
- Communities
- Joining a community
- Following
- Home and stories
- Discover
- Public workspaces
- Reports and blocking
Search Builders
People who build search, sharing what works and what does not.
PublicOpen342343 members
Communities
A home for what you make: Concepts, workspaces, rooms and design projects gathered in one place for its members.
A community gathers what its owner opens to its members: Concepts, workspaces, rooms and design projects, in one place with one way in. Each item says on what terms it opens. For members, it opens with the role the owner chose, reading or writing in a Concept, viewing a design. As a showcase, it is listed and opens nothing.
A community can be public, listed in Discover with its page open to read, or private, with only its name showing to anybody outside. Taking something out of a community never deletes it, and every change to it, who joined, who was let in, what was added, is kept in a log for its owner.
Joining a community
Open to anybody, by request, or by invitation only, with badges for the people who hold it together.
You join a community; you do not follow it. An open community lets you in at once. One that takes requests sends yours to its owner, who lets you in or turns it down. An invite-only one cannot be asked; its members are invited, and you accept from your Invitations.
Once inside, you can open what it holds and leave whenever you want.
Badges
The owner and the first hundred are marked by the community itself, and the owner can award the rest.
Every member list shows who started a community and who was there early: the owner wears a crown and the first hundred wear the founding member's seal. The owner can award helper, top contributor, mentor, creator, event host, rising star, veteran and supporter, one of each to a member.
A community can have its own badge too, an icon or a picture with a short name, which its members carry with them.
Members · 343
- ICInes CaetanoOwnerFounding member
- KMKofi MensahFounding memberMentor
- PRPriya RamanHelperTop contributor
- DVDmitri VolkovEvent host
Following
Follow people, Concepts and design projects to keep up with what they publish.
Follow a person to see what they publish, a Concept to hear when it changes, and a design project to see its work as it lands. All three sit together on your Following page.
Owners see how many people follow their work, never who. Following is a way to keep track of what you care about, and nothing more is built on it.
- ICInes CaetanoPerson · @ines · writes about retrievalFollowFollowing
- Retrieval PlaybookConcept · 12 documents · 1,204 followersFollowFollowing
- Search UI kitDesign project · 4 files · 310 followersFollowFollowing
Home and stories
A home feed of what is moving among what you follow and care about, and stories that disappear on their own.
Home gathers what has moved among the people and work you follow, ranked by how active it is and by the interests you picked when you joined, and it does not show you the same thing twice.
A story lasts a day, three days or a week, and you choose who sees it. Rooms and workspaces can post stories as well as people, and a story can carry a picture, a video or a card pointing at a Concept, a workspace or a design project.
- ICInes Caetano published 3 documents to Retrieval Playbook
- SUSearch UI kit merged a proposal: New result card
- ECEval Club is holding an event, Reading: BEIR revisited
Discover
Find public Concepts, workspaces, design projects and communities.
Browse what people have published, the workspaces and communities you can join, and the design projects open to read. Or paste a Concept's address, a username or a workspace's name and go straight there.
What you find you can read, and adapt where its owner allows it. You see how a Concept has been rated and how many follow it, always as a count.
Public workspaces
Retrieval Guild
by @ines · 128 members
Where people who build search compare notes and benchmarks.
#general#benchmarks
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Ines Caetano
@ines
Writes about retrieval and evaluation.
Retrieval Playbook
Kept by Ines Caetano. How to choose, test and ship a ranking change.
@ines·12 documents
Public workspaces
A workspace can be public, so others can find it and join.
A workspace can be made public, so that people outside it can find it and join. It is how a community forms around something being worked on, and not only around something already written. It stays yours to run: you set its roles and channel permissions, review requests to join, and remove or ban people who should not be there.
Reports and blocking
Keep a place safe.
Block somebody, or report a message, a person, a workspace or a community. A public place has rules, and the people in it have a way to see them enforced.