Community has been in WTFJHT’s DNA from the start. Nearly everything about the project — from the code that runs the site to the content itself — is open source. There’s a series of bustling message boards. The site also has no ads; WTFJHT is completely supported its readers.
From 2012 to 2015, Kiser worked as a product manager for Forbes and then Business Insider. After his time working for two publishers that have ruthlessly chased scale (though BI recently introduced a paywall), Kiser decided to go in the opposite direction with WTFJHT.
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In fact, he was inspired by the open-source software community.
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“I always wanted to have the community be involved in the creation of this thing, while still balancing the part where it’s my blog and my view of the world and I’m trying to make sense of it for you,” Kiser told me when we spoke last week.
“But it’s not a one-way street. For lack of a better word, it’s a conversation. The idea is to make it more collaborative, and that very much comes from the software world.”
I think the best way to illustrate how readers bolster WTFJHT is by walking you through a typical day for the site. The schedule sometimes varies from day to day, but you’ll see what goes into creating a day’s worth of coverage and also will see how Kiser has been able to involve readers. Ok? Here we go:
• 7:30 a.m. EST:Joe Amditis writes four or five news blurbs for the site first thing in the morning. Amditis’ day job is as associate director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, but on the side, he produces the WTFJHT podcast (more on that later) and helps Kiser run the site. Amditis takes the early shift because he lives in New Jersey, which is three hours ahead of Seattle.
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• 10 a.m. EST: It’s now 7 a.m. on the west coast, and Kiser takes over from Amditis. As news breaks and evolves throughout the day he’ll keep the WTFJHT site updated. Each day’s post is a numbered list of the stories Kiser thinks are the most important of the day.
The site is run on GitHub and is open-source, so readers can see the revision history of each post and they can also make edits.
Throughout the day, in addition to following the news and updating the post, Kiser will jump into the site’s forums, hosted on the Coral Project’s Talk platform, to chat with readers. He’ll also work on maintaining the site and adding new features.
• 1 p.m. EST: WTFJHT sends out a Google Chrome notification highlighting the latest news.
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