I think there is also a question of how many comments there are. ~books has had no posts in the last 24 hours, but of the 4 posts yesterday, there were discussions in all of them. The number of...
I think there is also a question of how many comments there are. ~books has had no posts in the last 24 hours, but of the 4 posts yesterday, there were discussions in all of them. The number of posts is not a good metric of a community's vitality.
That is a very important point to highlight IMO. Groups with low posting rates aren't necessarily a bad thing, especially when the activity they have sparks such wonderfully long and in-depth...
That is a very important point to highlight IMO. Groups with low posting rates aren't necessarily a bad thing, especially when the activity they have sparks such wonderfully long and in-depth discussions.
Whereas on the opposite end of the spectrum ~games has high post and vote activity but not necessarily the same depth in terms of comments, similar to ~music.
Neither is a bad thing either, IMO. They are just different types of communities that value things differently. :)
At least until we have tag filtering, having more groups is better because it allows people to see (or avoid) certain types of content. As I've mentioned before as well, when we had fewer groups...
At least until we have tag filtering, having more groups is better because it allows people to see (or avoid) certain types of content. As I've mentioned before as well, when we had fewer groups initially, there was also a chilling effect where people didn't want to post certain types of content because it didn't fit anywhere (posting to ~misc doesn't feel great).
What's the downside of "too many" groups that consolidating them back into another would improve?
Erm, are you suggesting they go into ~misc or ~talk? I'm not sure how more general it gets than hobbies or food. And while 3k is the current usercount and deimos is going for sustainable growth...
Erm, are you suggesting they go into ~misc or ~talk? I'm not sure how more general it gets than hobbies or food.
And while 3k is the current usercount and deimos is going for sustainable growth tilted towards posters of OC, I think we'll fill out enough to bump the activity for each sub.
I'd also like to hope that the posting culture here is less flash in the pan than a trending Insta post or subreddit topic. I enjoy having a nice block of time offline without the FOMO feeling one can get with shallower, more zippy content aggregators.
~food seems to encompass diets nicely, and the differentiation between "lifestyle" and "hobby" is quite vague. Is yoga a hobby or a lifestyle? Should a post about veganism go in ~food or...
~food seems to encompass diets nicely, and the differentiation between "lifestyle" and "hobby" is quite vague. Is yoga a hobby or a lifestyle? Should a post about veganism go in ~food or ~lifestyle?
I'm not saying deleting ~lifestyle is the answer, but I don't see a compelling reason for it to exist quite yet.
Furries. Swingers. Bicycle commuters and utility cyclists. Preppers. Recreational drug users. Hell, smokers, or at least people who want to no longer be smokers. (It's not really food and it's not...
Furries. Swingers. Bicycle commuters and utility cyclists. Preppers. Recreational drug users. Hell, smokers, or at least people who want to no longer be smokers. (It's not really food and it's not really a hobby...) Full-time RVers. Lots of fairly specific niche things could probably fall under the "lifestyle" banner.
Should posts about veganism go in ~food? If they're about cooking/eating without meat, sure, it seems to me. But I can't see ~food as the place for posts about purges, the health effects of animal-free diets... or discussions about "is a meat-free diet right for me?" and so on.
I do think rewording the description would be beneficial, though.
Thanks, lots of good examples in there. Most of the group descriptions are pretty far on the "placeholder" side of things, if you want to suggest a new one for ~lifestyle (or any of the others),...
Thanks, lots of good examples in there. Most of the group descriptions are pretty far on the "placeholder" side of things, if you want to suggest a new one for ~lifestyle (or any of the others), I'd be happy to update them.
I don't have a real meaningful replacement text at the moment, but the editor in me wants to at least re-order what's there so that "Outdoor activities" comes last, lest it inadvertently seem that...
I don't have a real meaningful replacement text at the moment, but the editor in me wants to at least re-order what's there so that "Outdoor activities" comes last, lest it inadvertently seem that "Outdoor" modifies all of what follows.
Or maybe I'm the only one that spent five seconds trying to figure out what "outdoor diets" are, I dunno. :)
I think there is also a question of how many comments there are. ~books has had no posts in the last 24 hours, but of the 4 posts yesterday, there were discussions in all of them. The number of posts is not a good metric of a community's vitality.
That is a very important point to highlight IMO. Groups with low posting rates aren't necessarily a bad thing, especially when the activity they have sparks such wonderfully long and in-depth discussions.
Whereas on the opposite end of the spectrum ~games has high post and vote activity but not necessarily the same depth in terms of comments, similar to ~music.
Neither is a bad thing either, IMO. They are just different types of communities that value things differently. :)
At least until we have tag filtering, having more groups is better because it allows people to see (or avoid) certain types of content. As I've mentioned before as well, when we had fewer groups initially, there was also a chilling effect where people didn't want to post certain types of content because it didn't fit anywhere (posting to ~misc doesn't feel great).
What's the downside of "too many" groups that consolidating them back into another would improve?
Erm, are you suggesting they go into ~misc or ~talk? I'm not sure how more general it gets than hobbies or food.
And while 3k is the current usercount and deimos is going for sustainable growth tilted towards posters of OC, I think we'll fill out enough to bump the activity for each sub.
I'd also like to hope that the posting culture here is less flash in the pan than a trending Insta post or subreddit topic. I enjoy having a nice block of time offline without the FOMO feeling one can get with shallower, more zippy content aggregators.
Of those groups, I think ~lifestyle is the only useless one (what would you post in lifestyle? what does lifestyle even mean?)
As the description of it says:
~food seems to encompass diets nicely, and the differentiation between "lifestyle" and "hobby" is quite vague. Is yoga a hobby or a lifestyle? Should a post about veganism go in ~food or ~lifestyle?
I'm not saying deleting ~lifestyle is the answer, but I don't see a compelling reason for it to exist quite yet.
Furries. Swingers. Bicycle commuters and utility cyclists. Preppers. Recreational drug users. Hell, smokers, or at least people who want to no longer be smokers. (It's not really food and it's not really a hobby...) Full-time RVers. Lots of fairly specific niche things could probably fall under the "lifestyle" banner.
Should posts about veganism go in ~food? If they're about cooking/eating without meat, sure, it seems to me. But I can't see ~food as the place for posts about purges, the health effects of animal-free diets... or discussions about "is a meat-free diet right for me?" and so on.
I do think rewording the description would be beneficial, though.
Thanks, lots of good examples in there. Most of the group descriptions are pretty far on the "placeholder" side of things, if you want to suggest a new one for ~lifestyle (or any of the others), I'd be happy to update them.
I don't have a real meaningful replacement text at the moment, but the editor in me wants to at least re-order what's there so that "Outdoor activities" comes last, lest it inadvertently seem that "Outdoor" modifies all of what follows.
Or maybe I'm the only one that spent five seconds trying to figure out what "outdoor diets" are, I dunno. :)
I think lifestyle should be in talk.lifestyle
Hah ~sports, you think we do sports? (Jk)