update: we have a pretty good idea of what we’ll add to start, probably tomorrow. i’m unpinning this post and beginning to reply to posts in here with specifics. thank you for your suggestions to this point
no promises on any specific additions from me or the other mods, but now is a good time to gauge this.[1] for reference, our current 18 non-support communities are:[2]
- Chat
- Creative
- Do It Yourself
- Entertainment
- Environment
- Feminism
- Finance
- Free and Open Source Software
- Gaming
- Humanities
- LGBTQ+
- Music
- News
- Politics
- Science
- Space
- Sports
- Technology
try to be a little broad in your suggestions–this is still a site of just 1,000 people, so it simply can’t be as granular as reddit–but it’s fine if your suggestion is a specific subset of an already existing community or overlaps with one. Space and FOSS are some obvious examples of already existing overlap, and those communities work fine.
and even if we don’t add a suggestion in the immediate term, knowing that there’s interest makes it easier to do so later ↩︎
these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎
A big aspect of what helped Reddit gain notice and popularity was ‘Ask me Anything’ subreddit (r/IAMA). Described as a new kind of crowdsourced interview, you would have an OP/Participant that has some claim to fame/following come in and answer questions from regular users about ‘whatever’.
I love this idea, but it requires quite a bit of overhead and recruiting to gain popularity. I’m not sure we’re large enough to acquire anyone particularly notable but I’m intrigued by the idea. Are you or anyone else willing to volunteer to help make a place like this work? I’m more than happy to chip in where I can, but this seems like quite the potential undertaking.
It is definitely a huge undertaking and need someone with some connections and a customer service mindset. I can’t take the reigns on heading up such a community at this time. But I can help out with technical requirements to support it.
I would also love to see an AMA community.