FYI, I created [email protected] right in the beginning with this audience in mind, but it didn't get any traction so I ended up prioritizing other things. I'd gladly help there if you want.
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So basically "I made dis"?
I think it would be better the wider the scope.
Because there'd be a lot of people who might not really understand what they're looking at (or hearing if it makes sounds) you'd want to require titles like "I made dis sofacondom" and a brief explanation of what it is, how you made it, and why you are proud of it. You're right, links to communities with similar stuff would be great, but if they don't exist yet it would be a good place to get them started. For that reason, keeping the rules loose about what counts as "made" and the categories of projects seems like it would be good.
For sure! I'd prefer to have the scope as wide as reasonable. Anything that a person had a hand in making/doing/creating.
Maybe something like this (but written nicely)
Rules
- Should be something you were involved with, or can speak about
- Title should explain what the post is about
Recommended:
- Brief explanation of what it is, how you made it, and why you are proud of it
- Crosspost from other communities that are more specific for your project
Then the sidebar could have a growing list of such communities
Interesting!
I suspect it could help. There seems to be a certain “just showing something I did” category of post. And fragmenting it into smaller communities may not help too much. So a general comm would probably help.
More broadly though, this is really just covering for the lack of multi communities. At least that’s how I see it. This feature keeps coming up and it’s been stuck for so long I’m thinking the best thing might be to try to actually get it implemented. It seems to have suffered from best being the enemy of good, so just getting input and consensus on what people would be happy with and they’d use it could maybe go a long way.
Agreed, a multi community would have been great for this
great for a number of things I suspect ... I think it's absence has hampered the quality of the ecosystem ... which is sad because it seems its development was stalled because too many people wanted too many different/complex things and so the basic functionality kinda just got left behind (and the devs probably got tired of the debate).