A weekly thread makes sense to me, as the userbase is small (but hopefully growing).
It also means I don’t have to wait for the bot to post the threads :P
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djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Little question I was asking myself: what would you think about having an SOTD thread and a questions thread per week instead of doing it daily?
At least while we are in the single digit submissions per day?
WegianWarrior@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Good question. Daily SOTD threads would help worbx (assuming he still collects data, and assuming the threads help him). Weekly questions thread is a good idea. I can easily remove the show and tell threads.
A weekly questions thread would also be more appropriate for pinning, which is a manual process for now.
sgrdddy@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
I have always wanted Reddit WS to change to a longer duration for the smaller question auto-threads. So I’m all for a weekly question thread.
And yep, keep the SOTDs daily. fine with me.
I use an app to take the shave data that I’ ve typed in and render it for either Youtube or reddit. I recently added lemmy and mastodon sections as well, so I don’t mind continuing to post in all of them.
However, if I only have a discussion in one, and then later want to find it, it’s a bit of a hassle to figure out where the discussion was.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
I think this is a good balance. Keep SOTD threads, but make the questions weekly.
worbx@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Hah, thanks, yeah, I’m still around. Just busy enough that I haven’t written up the next reports. The daily SOTD threads help because not everyone puts a date in their SOTD posts. A lot of them are backdated after the fact; people may go a week or so without posting then post a bunch all at once. Daily threads mean that’s organized in such a way that I can count someone as an every day shaver even if they didn’t actually post every day, on that day.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Good to know
worbx@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Also, thanks for making the questions thread weekly! Otherwise I might have missed this entirely since I’m not on the community every day anymore. :)
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Clarification question: the SOTD thread would remain daily? With AA gone, we should have 10-ish posts there, so I don’t think it would be useful to regroup these.
It’s true that we haven’t had any real question for a while, and I think once a week might give us a chance to have some posts on it.
And I’m not sure whether we want Free Talk Fridays and show and tell threads.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
I agree. Yes to SOTDaily, no to free talk, show’n’tell. etc.
MaplePoplar@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
We could just do a combo free talk friday/daily question thread on friday. Same with the show and tell day. When it gets too busy and cluttered it could always be changed. Daily SOTD posts are nice a week would be a bit tough to sift through. I am using Memmy on IOS and it works very well, similar to Apollo for reddit. All of this stuff is displaying excellent for me. I really do appreciate the work you guys are putting in so thank you very much.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
A weekly combo thread is an interesting idea.
gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
I think that a weekly questions thread makes sense and I agree with @walden@sub.wetshaving.social that daily SOTD threads would help maintain consistency with worbx’s statistics.
My guess is that most people will adapt to Reddit’s change in policy by finding new phone apps, or living with more restrictions in their subs. I think that this will take time for the community to see, but there are significant benefits that come from an open system. I’m not sure I fully get the Fediverse advantages yet, but I’m very interested to see what can be leveraged there.
I’ll ask a related question in this thread.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Pinging @walden@sub.wetshaving.social, @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social, @PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social, @MaplePoplar@sub.wetshaving.social, who are the most frequent posters here I could think of.
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Also pinging @bmac92@lemmy.world and @WegianWarrior@sub.wetshaving.social, who post regularly here.
spj_hook@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
What’s the plan with Reddit going forward? Will most users be staying over there?
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
It seems that way to me, at least for the time being
spj_hook@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Interesting. I said I wouldn’t, but I’m now begrudgingly considering a return to Reddit myself. I liked the idea of moving here, but there’s just not the community engagement I was hoping for. Not just in wetshaving, but all the communities I was in.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I get that.
I’m just thinking that the enshittification of Reddit has started, and once started it won’t stop. The Reddit investors want their return on their investment and that’s that. I don’t blame them, but I have no illusions about a rosy future.
In the meanwhile, I want to give this alternative a real chance.
My question goes in that direction, too. I think this may feel more like a community with the weekly threads, which would hopefully feel less empty.
Velocipedic@sub.wetshaving.social 1 year ago
It’s not a “bustling metropolis” but I think it hasn’t really had enough time to blossom. And I’ve been busy with life so I’ve not been contributing as I would normally either.