SocialHub has been the most prominent place for cross-project collaboration for years
Indeed, but thanks to forum federation, we're reaching a point where we can maintain a unified source of truth without a central dev forum (which is a SPoF). In theory, any general-purpose fediverse dev portal could host all the same discussions. But I'm not sure how widely understood this is.
silverpill1:the need to create an account there was a major barrier to entry, but this is no longer the case as the forum supports ActivityPub.
I'd say that's more an aspiration than a reality. SH does have 2-way syncing with Discourse and NodeBB dev spaces, which is a great PoC. But do any of the other projects with their own dev forum (eg FunkWhale) have federation relationships with SH?
As we explored in the recent thread about the.socialmusic.network, there's lots of ways to plumb different forums together. Which means there's a bunch of experimentation to be done, and probably UX improvements to be made in all participating software, to make the various options easier to understand and use.
silverpill1:I wonder what they meant by this. There are lots of projects that support long form content.
You'd have to ask John to be sure. But I suspect that he's describing projects that can send and display formatted Articles; long form content with things like titles, summaries, headings, footnotes, and positioned images. Not just plaintext Notes without a character limit. Which shortens the list quite a bit.
John's comment might also reflect the fact that there are projects that do belong on that list, but which don't yet have devs in communication with the "longformers" group including John (Ghost), @pfefferle (WordPress), Matt (WriteFreely) and @devnull (NodeBB). All the more reason to get more of these discussions public, and defragmentated with federation.