I’m considering closing and redirecting [email protected] and [email protected]. They haven’t seen much activity in months/years. Usually, people just post in the ask/asklemmy communities and indicate which group of people they want answers from.
Here is a draft for the pinned post so far:
There currently isn’t a one to one match for the topic of this community. If you want answers from a specific group (ex. men/women), you could instead start your question with a phrase like “A question for men:”. Here are some alternative communities:
“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):
For questions that are more specific to your situation:
Group specific communities:
Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):
If you would like to take over this community, please reach out to @[email protected]
Do you have any thoughts? Are there other communities that should be included in the list?
Have you considered locking it down until we get more users?
can you please elaborate why would that be helpful?
Having an open community without any posts in the last few months gives a potential new joiner the impression that the platform is just empty. Multiply that by the number of communities they encounter which are in a similar stage and they just leave to never come back.
On the other hand, seeing a locked community with “community locked for now, here’s an active alternative” points the potential new joiner to the active community, which shows them that this place indeed has some activity.
ooh… that makes sense. I will lock it down, but where should i direct them to? There was a stupid question community in lemmee i think, but now that is no more, so not sure what should be the best option. maybe normal ask communities, but they do not feel right.
Normal ask communities I would say. You can maybe even reuse this post content