MyNameIsFred

Nice. Thanks!

Agree those two changes would be good. Along with making the ability to add topic sorting or community grouping where you can view say, all “technology” communities in a url. Or all Linux communities across instances in a big group etc.

Right. Agree. But searching for communities, especially those outside your instance can be wonky. Finding communities and grouping like communities across instances is difficult as it currently sits. And it takes a bit of understanding how to search to find things.

Yeah. Best I can describe it is its like email for message boards.

But I can see definate needs for better community discovery, group like communities from other instances, making reccomendations for similar communities etc.

I dont see most less technical users moving at all without some more UI maturity. The whole federated services thing is just a bit too abstract a concept for most. And right now its difficult to find/join communities outside your instance.

My hope is they add multi communities of some sort. Where you can

A. Group like communities together and browse them by topic, similar to multireddits

And/or

B. Certain communities can join forces and automatically cross-post with each other to reduce duplication and fragmentation while still splitting load

How technically feasible the latter is, I don’t know. But it would be cool. I’m still prettt new to this type of setup.

Yeah I sent the admin a note via dm and it was back this afternoon. I’m thinking just the web-ui was borked. Not sure. Also unsure if it was correlation or causation.

Thanks!. Found it just after the comment. There was a instance called infosec.pub the other day that seemed to have some promise. Seems down now as well.

Sysadmin, networking, homelab

Begs the question. Is there a way to request a new community on beehaw?