Ben Edwards Interview for SamsungTomorrow

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

While not required, Ben “explained” that number in post below…

We don’t define the 18k number in a great way—I would love it to be a measure of “high performing developers” but for now it is those developers who have ever saved a SmartApp or device type handler (de-duped, and aggregate over all-time)

I personally think the number is meaningless and borderline misleading. Or maybe I still just “don’t get it”.

Still: When your job’s title and scope includes “Developer Advocacy”, then I guess it makes sense you’ll pick the statistic that maximizes your influence, right?

Well… not worth caring about: Fact is: SmartThings in the media, is different than SmartThings in real life.

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Frustrated by the state of things

Maybe there needs to be a new thread “Defending the best and 2nd largest** home automation community” where I post stats like we have over 8,000 daily visits*** and where members author 14,569 posts per month. We don’t define the 18k number in a great way—I would love it to be a measure of “high performing developers” but for now it is those developers who have ever saved a SmartApp or device type handler (de-duped, and aggregate over all-time) This sort of drains me guys. Everything is pulled apart and analyzed to the nth degree. Every time I make a statement here there are 20 more comments “not to be nitpicking” this or that. It is exhausting. I have more important things to do—specifically making sure that the needs of the developers on the SmartThings platform are being recognized and…