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It's been just under a year since the last group request thread, will/should we make another one?
364 days specifically, and it's 11 PM again, so admittedly it's kinda late to ask this question.
Usually I would pull-up the concerns over no user growth meaning more groups is just more division for less content but this Deimos reply implies otherwise?
Is there a specific group you think we need? Personally, I'm leaning more towards wanting to get rid of some of the existing inactive groups than adding more.
Surprisingly to me, it appears you're right, given one post per day as "enough" doesn't leave a lot of options other than maybe a division of tech or talk into perhaps tech.software and tech.hardware or talk.ask.survey or something. I'm not so sure what to do with this post now.
Looking at ~misc there seem to be a fair number of categories that show up again and again. Politics seeming to be the biggest one, although perhaps it's in the sites best interest to avoid that particular one.
There aren't many repeated subjects other than politics. Here are all the tags that have been used in ~misc more than twice over the last 30 days:
Maybe a weekly megathread for Politics? Not sure if it would invite more discourse then it would quarantine though.
I think politics happens too quickly for a weekly megathread to work. It also invites questions of which stories are significant enough to deserve their own thread, versus being submitted to the megathread.
It's not unworkable by any means, but there are some wriggles in that approach.
Considering we are doing pretty well on lgbt, but very poorly on (cis) female representation, maybe it would make sense to rethink ~girltalk or something similar.
Yeah, but that's kind of migrating a specific community/subreddit from reddit into an area in this site which to some level represents them, which while something we could definitely do to a lot of subs (a lot of advice subs, trueaskreddit, politicaldiscussion (although again, some of the questions there are odd), neutralpolitics, etc.
That's kinda specific to their community and while they'll definitely talk about everything else too, it kind of feels like this primarily benefits the areas immediately surrounding the new community and the rest will definitely be enjoying the extra activity from these new users, but that kinda seems like it tbh.
I'd love your group. When do you think it would be ready?
The delay on it is entirely my fault. I've been promising @suspended that I'll build something that uses Reddit's OAuth to be able to transfer over all of the subreddit's users easily without needing to manually and individually send them all invites, but I haven't gotten it to a usable point yet.
While there isn't a group dedicated specifically to it, the "pets" tag is already in use in various related groups: https://tildes.net/?tag=pets.
I don't think so. There's not a lot to discuss about pets.
Agreed! I would appreciate such a group.
Deimos' responded to my similar query here on July 11