Hey Zac, thanks for volunteering. I’m not sure what it’ll take to make this rat’s nest of code and dependencies open sourced but I’ll get back to you if / when that happens.

Yeah, that’s interesting. Def worth thinking about for round two.

Hey Pat, the LMT list is populated by tweets that haven’t received any replies. If you have fewer than 100 tweets or you registered your account in the last month, your tweet will pop to the top of the list. Hope to see you around!

You’re testifying to a lot of advanced truths about community, and maybe specifically community online. My highest aspiration for LMT isn’t that the novice teachers there involve themselves in supportive discussions with critical friends. As you said, those discussions may need to draw on existing or developing relationships. My hope for LMT is that more and more teachers would realize how quickly they can have a bidirectional relationship with this community. Even if that relationship just begins with “hey — I hear you, that’s interesting.”

What a wonderful comment, Nadine, and testimony from your student. Congratulations on wrapping up this phase of your career. I hope you find ways to stay connected to the project to which you dedicated much of your professional life.

I’d like to see participation increase, and I’ve been using a utility to capture usage these mathy hashtags. I’m sure I haven’t been capturing long enough to be able to separate the gradual improvement from some (hypothetical) inflection point in participation. Anecdotally, the top five “welcomers” on LMT have been way more active this week than last. Like, a 10x increase in participation. Not sure if that’s noise, some kind of change to my metrics I don’t know about, something else entirely, or if it relates to the site itself.

I featured a section of your comment, Shane. I think it’s a sentiment shared by a lot of people and I’m curious how we can make sure everyone knows they’re invited to participate.