My Chinese skill is not great (HSK3 - 4). Hopefully some more skilled (or fluent) users can participate.
The Chinese language learning communities on other social media sites such as on Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube can be tiresome. Endless joking about how supposedly difficult the language is, stale memes about measure words, and a huge focus on just one variety (Taiwan province’s dialect).
Hopefully we can focus on genuine learning in a helpful and positive way :)
As a sidebar, or as a pinned post?
I think the best would be to link to a post on the sidebar with software/tools recommendations.