Hey, what's up guys?
So, today I am really excited to finally announce the launch
of something that I have been wanting to build for years.
I kept it up in my head as an idea for a long time,
but finally last week I got around to building it
and there is now an official community
for College Info Geek.
And I decided to set it up as a subreddit on Reddit.com,
and I'll kind of explain the choice
of that platform in a minute.
But first, I kinda wanna tell you kind of my overall idea
for what I hope this community can be.
And if you wanna check it out,
the URL is CollegeInfoGeek.com/community.
You can check it out right there.
And, essentially, what I wanna make this
is the premier place for us to have discussions,
for questions to be answered,
for discussion to be had around videos,
because YouTube comments, while they're cool
and it's always great to get feedback on them
on the videos I make, YouTube comments
and blog comments, likewise, are just set up
for reactions for the video maker.
You watch a video and then you can react to it.
You can respond to it.
And then, people can reply to your comments, that's true,
but these systems are not set up
to promote good discussion between multiple people
in the audience or between me and multiple people at once.
And, likewise, my e-mail is only set up for me
to be able to correspond with one person at a time.
And if I answer a question on my e-mail,
then only one person gets to see that answer.
So, I've always wanted to set up some sort
of discussion forum where we can all help each other out
and where all those answers can be visible
and where good discussion can be promoted.
I chose Reddit because I've been on Reddit for four years
and I've gotten a lot of value out of the site.
There's certainly certain areas of the site
with trolls and sarcastic people,
but, in my experience, the smaller interest-based subreddits
where people are trying to learn new skills
or just get better at things in general,
those are always overflowing with positivity
and people just trying to help each other out,
and that's what I'm kinda hoping this community will be.
And I actually wanted to test it out before I went live
and told everyone about it, so I set it up,
last Tuesday, I think, is when I think it went live,
and I kinda just told a little small percentage
of the people who are subscribed to the newsletter.
So, we've been having discussions in there for the past week
and it's going great and I would love for you to join in
and help this subreddit grow to become the premier place
for discussions to happen around my videos.
That's kinda like the first purpose of this community.
I'm gonna be making a discussion thread
for every new video going forward and you'll find it
linked in the description for those videos.
And I'm kinda hoping that most of the good discussion
on new videos can go over there,
where people can upvote the best comments
and where replies are much easier for me to see.
I will say, it's pretty hard for me to see replies
to comments on YouTube.
I can see the new ones,
but it's really hard for me to see replies.
And on Reddit, that's really, really easy for me to see.
So, discussion for videos is gonna be there.
I'm also gonna try to be answering most questions
from you guys over on the community rather than e-mail
because, like I said, with e-mail,
only one person can benefit from that answer.
And, to be honest, it's really hard for me
to answer questions in the first place.
I can answer a few, but all of them
just kinda gets overwhelming
with the rest of the work I have to do.
But with the community, I'll be able to answer
just as many as I was via e-mail,
but also, there's so many of you guys out there
who already have lots of answers and knowledge
and experience that I don't have.
So, if you've got a question,
there's likely gonna be somebody else
who can provide an answer.
And you can go to see the threads
right now in the community.
I'm pretty sure every thread there right now
has an answer from someone, even if it's not me.
So, ask your questions there.
Also, if you have tips of your own or experiences
that you wanna post about,
they can definitely benefit other students.
And, if you've got topics that you'd like to see me cover
on the channel in the future,
or maybe guests that would be good
on the College Info Geek podcast,
I'm gonna be making a official topic request thread
that'll be at the top of the community every single month.
So, if you put your requests there,
it'll be like a nice place to consolidate them
and I can kind of see which ones people are upvoting
and which ones I should make next.
Also, this is kind of a way to hand a little bit
of the control of this project to you guys,
'cause I'm really open to your ideas
and I wanna hear how we can make this,
College Info Geek as a project, overall,
better for students all over the world.
So, if you have ideas, there's gonna be
an official discussion thread for this launch video.
I'll have it linked down in the description below
and I would love to hear your ideas
for what we can do in the community to make it better.
Maybe we can have monthly discussion threads
on certain topics, or you guys can submit your ideas
or your best tips or maybe favorite apps
and tools, things like that.
And otherwise, yeah, just let me know what you think
and I would absolutely love to see you in the community.
You can subscribe using Reddit.
It's really easy to create an account.
And there's also apps for pretty much every smartphone
that can make it really easy to browse on the go.
So, I'll see you over in the community.
And, as always, thank you so much for watching.