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.

  1. 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 ↩︎

  2. these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎

  •  alyaza [they/she]   ( @alyaza@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Queer communities in general would be good, be they for advice, memes or sharing in general, both broad queer subs and ones specifically for a given group

    for now i think just the one we have (LGBTQ+) should cover things pretty well–it’s pretty lightly used overall, so there’s not a big risk of everything getting lost yet. but yeah, we’ll definitely break it into more focused communities with time; there’s already a big contingent of queer people on the site so this might come sooner than expected.

    Outside of that just more hobby communities in general, from sports, to gardening to card games, any hobby that doesn’t fall within the traditional perview of what tech and foss bros like, so theres something worthwhile here for non techy people

    generally i try to tailor what i post here to “non-tech” people, since i fall into that category myself and plenty of folks on here already cover the tech stuff better than i do. this might be a problem that’s also solved just by a bigger userbase (and some of our additions tomorrow). the Gaming community for example is really picking up steam when previously there were basically no posters there, lol