UX: "Tweet" on new project is depressing

When I create a new project, my feed tells me "Congratulations! Why not share your accomplishment with the world? Tweet" But I haven't done anything yet. I've made an empty project. This is the opposite of encouraging. This message should be reserved for making a release or other milestone.

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\cc @DouweM @creamzy @JobV

@axil good catch, I would like yo hear @JobV 's opinion on this. Tweet is something related to marketing the product as well, not purely R&D decision.

I think we barely see these tweets + I'm not a fan of them. I vote for removing it.

@nearlythere can you give your opinion?

I was wondering where they were configured. Actually this just seems wrong. Thanks so much @kousu for pointing this out. I had thought about it...

As a voice of GitLab on Twitter, I am never sure how to respond to these. I like to reply with a proper Welcome when someone has written a personal "I just moved to GitLab" but I feel weird replying to something automated like that.

For GitLab on Twitter we should model Collaboration and Discussion. This just doesn't spark either.

I would rather look more closely at the onboarding experience of GitLab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/519

If we create a useful tool, we can contribute as part of CE? Certainly all OSS could benefit from promotion tools! They might appreciate that.

For GitLab.com service itself, we can focus on making it easier for people to share their love intentionally. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/518

cc @AshleyS

@nearlythere totally agree with you

@JobV for this issue, I vote for removing them as well. Should we treat it as the final decision and move to frontend label 8.6 milestone?

FYI: To get rid of the tweet button on GitLab.com right now, there's a check box in the admin panel.

@DouweM amazing, this is how GitLab rolls

@JobV maybe it is possible to set this checkbox to unchecked state by default?

@creamzy @DouweM - Agreed on changing config for GitLab.com but also don't think this option serves our users well who do need help promoting their projects. Kinda all looks a bit spammy.

@JobV do we know how may users is using it?

Yeah this is still not awesome. Good feedback from a user today:

@trollofix Yeah, @gitlab, I totally want to tweet about the creation of an internal or private repo, and share it with the world. m)

https://twitter.com/trollofix/status/709430087414882304

Please remove all the code completely, people are not using this.

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BTW this feature was my idea, kill your darlings based on data

For removing this :-)

I can work on this, if no-one else is doing so?

@jvanbaarsen Or if you think this is good for #upforgrabs label?

@sytses we only have anecdotal data at this time, but i agree with the OP in this case.

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@nearlythere I don't see much tweets with this message anymore in tweetdeck, that counts as data to me

@sytses ah cool! good point!

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