Just some general feedback for Monzo/@AlanDoe/@cookywook in regards to community direction.
I miss the days when the folks who built the products would drop by the community to share the cool new thing they worked on. When you send a product marketer to market it at us instead it just doesn’t hit the same.
Marketing folks are cool too, especially when they stick around and continue to engage, but I think this is more a know your audience issue. We’re not the folks who need marketing too, and product marketers aren’t really the folks we want to hear from with respect to these things.
This is something more suited to your socials and newsletters.
I’m using we a lot, because I’m sure this is a gripe that resonates with many folks and not just me. I believe it’s partly why we don’t see @Peter_G anymore.
Just some food for thought.
There’s probably a lot of other factors involved in them doing this. How easy it was to do. How resource intensive it was. Was it as you speculated, that a rogue Garmin using engineer took this up in their free time?
It goes into my feedback, because I think those are questions that would have been addressed if the post came from someone who built it, rather than someone who came here to market it.
The difference between this post on Garmin pay and this one announcing the tag suggester as an example are night and day, and I’m sure it’s the sort of announcement post most of us here would prefer to read.