Path of Exile discussion

Hiya,

We subreddit mods don't want the community harmed either. I'm preparing a post aimed at addressing feedback we've gotten from the community and discussing our plan and how we'll be getting your thoughts on that plan as well. I need to draft it up and run it by the rest of the mods for review, so expect it tomorrow at the earliest.

If you want to read some personal thoughts on Discord (not an official plan) I wrote about the blackout, check in the PoE discord server (discord.gg/pathofexile) starting here and going a few pages below that as well

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Honestly, this is a pretty slow time for PoE content too. We're mid-league, and we just got some cinematic PoE2 trailers without much substance to them. People who really want to discuss PoE will slowly filter their way into Lemmy over the next couple of months, and I'm sure there will be a spike in activity when the next league drops.

I would rather mods stick to their guns. Short term is may be messy, but I think it's best for the longterm health of the community to drop Reddit.

Give Lemmy a chance to surge when the next league hype starts. There's a lot to be gained; switching from Reddit to Lemmy would a boon to the community the way the wiki migration from Fandom to community-run was.

Honestly speaking there have been a multitude of posters on the Discord that keep coming in going "Is the subreddit private? I dont get it" and they didnt even read the message you get when you visit /r/pathofexile

So I mostly chalk it up to "people cant read" tbh

i like this site because i got the username "Cat"

This is the way.

Would be nice to get a seal-of-approval, to see any post made by anyone from GGG here.

I'll be honest, so far the switch seems much more seamless than I expected. With how sedentary social media and the web generally have become, I'd have expected a much, MUCH slower transition, to the tune of maybe a person or two joining per day, with somewhere around 50 joining initially... And that's not even mentioning like others have said that it's already a pretty dead time in the ebb and flow of PoE communication. Given all the circumstances, I think what we currently have is about on track with what could be expected early on. It's not like the reddit userbase didn't generally rely on comparatively few active users to provide content to lurk in.

It doesn't harm the community at all. Having a small high quality community is better than having 10 million people subscribed that spam the forum with low effort comments.

I'd much rather have a smaller community and high quality discussions. All of the important links and threads will be cross posted anyway. All of the teaser videos will be linked here, etc.

The ActivityPub-based platforms like Lemmy are a more sustainable option. It is very likely Reddit will continue their march towards aggressive monetization, the API changes will not be the last thing. Having a community that isn't bound by the whims of a group of executives is a positive thing. Even if that means that it takes time to grow the userbase.

Some reddit apps don't show the message on the poe subreddit that links to this site (for example RIF, it just shows an empty page).

A lot of people are not that invested in poe or reddit that they would bother with moving to another platform, instead they'll just stop interacting with the community and move on to something else. Getting people to move to another platform is always a big ask.

I'm still kinda surprised by how quiet this place has been. I think this site works just fine.

I want to mention that the chosen url isn't great. I tried to remember it just now and couldn't, had to go back to the Reddit private community message just to see where it was.

anyone else getting confused by these @lemmy.world usernames?

People rightly complained / didnt use the official reddit mobile app because it was bad. Some also continued using old.reddit because they didn't like the new one. Honestly, this new thing, is bad. That's the main reason for me. It's not just a "don't want to change" thing either. The UI is lacking compared to reddit. Also the forum view, is not good imo. Both old and new versions of reddit did it better.

Also, that's a me thing, but I don't understand the layout of the page. On reddit you have a main account, 1 account to login and you can join different subs. Have all the relevant info on your front page. Here I only see the poe "sub". Where's the rest? I had my main page with new / relevant posts from all the subs I followed. Like an old man reads the newspaper for many different news, I had reddit and I can't replicate that here. That's the another deal breaker.

Finally there's so many personal account based stuff like saved posts, repositories of information, karma, replies and discussions that can't be transfered here. It just can't happen. There's also a lot of usernames and people you met and talked over the years, now that is gone. And people with streamer names that's gonna cause confusion.

I get it that reddit fucked up and communities are not "moderatable" anymore but this is such a downgrade and the transition causes many problems, I just don't see me happy using either at the end of the day.

Give it some more time

Stuff doesn't happen instantly. What they can do to help it tho, is that the mods delete the sidebar information on reddit and just replace it with this site. I just made an account today as well and as some people pointed out it's the middle of the league which also means stuff isn't that active either.

Poe was the only reddit I really followed the rest of it could go away, and I wouldn't notice. I could get over the lemmy ui, if there was actually people here.

I just made an account here in case I ever need to use it. I was hoping that settings would allow me to change some things to make this site look better (like smaller text!) but all I was able to really do is switch from light mode to dark mode. It doesn't feel like a great replacement just yet...

To be honest, I just don't think people in the Poe (reddit) community know of Lemmy / this place.

Hi, Uhh I guess just give it time. The amount of users has expanded quite a bit the last few days. It'll be several years of constant growth before we see even close to the same amount of activity as on Reddit, but Reddit had to start from the bottom too. I for one was thrilled to see this sub spin up, even if I'm super casual in PoE.

took me a while to find the link to this place, and then could only get it to load using edge of all things. chrome says too many redirects, and firefox eventually said the same thing.

I cant believe the mods shut down the communities central gathering place with genuine POE2 hype on the horizon and pushed us to a dead site that will absolutely not generate any hype whatsoever

thanks guys guess ill just google the poe main website every day to get news updates