Comment on A couple of community requests
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week agoI was trying to aim for 1 post a day in c/MelbourneTrains for a while, but I haven’t been going out on the trains as much as I used to, and aren’t seeing as many cool things as I once did. I still try to keep up 1 post a week minimum, preferably at least 1 news or similar type article + 1 photograph
c/SydneyTrains is largely being kept on life support by @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone and @WaterWaiver@aussie.zone (thank you both, I appreciate you), and I try to post occasionally, but I have only visited Sydney once and mostly took photos of mundane things everybody potentially interested in the community will have seen dozens or hundreds of times, so I don’t really post those. Mostly just news articles and opinion pieces, occasionally YouTube videos or video essays where I stumble upon one I enjoy
c/BrisbaneTrains is a lot more complicated. I wasn’t th eone who requested that, but did volunteer to help moderate. But I dont live in Brisbane, have never been to Brisbane, and haven’t the faintest clue how their public transport network works, so my ability to post is largely restricted to articles, which I don’t get many of because I don’t know anything about it and haven’t been interested enough I suppose. And nobody else has really posted anything there
I’d really love to see some people asking questions and wanting to learn about aspects of (particularly Melbourne’s) train networks. I’ve got… Some… knowledge that I could share, about various things, but most of the engagement in melb trains seems to come from people browsing local who see something and go “huh, neat. Upvote”, so it feels a bit like an echo chamber
I like discussion and debate, too. There was some good debate on a post about hydrogen buses in c/MelbourneTrains a while back. I didnt really participate because I just didn’t have enough knowledge about the pros and cons of hydrogen as a vehicle power source to comment, but it was good to see and I’d love more of that
If an AusTransport community were to be created, I’d definitely aim for at least a post a week, which would still make it more active than some other communities such as AusTech
Yeah, you definitely seem to be having the experience i’ve been having. I think for new communities, and current ones, it’d be ideal to get a few more users/mods committed to supporting those communities.
As they say, many hands make light work. Also diversity of content is pretty hard to do by one person.
WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Chux Baku, I didn’t think I was doing much :)
AusTransport sounds nice. But what happens to the old communities, to avoid people using those? I don’t know if it’s possible to lock them and leave a notice, or unlist them somehow?
Baku@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Imo, SydneyTrains and MelbourneTrains have enough activity to justify keeping. BrisbaneTrains is pretty much dead, so we could either just leave it, or run a poll and if everyone was in agreeance, leave a redirect notice to this new AusTransport community and ask people to post their instead
As for the potential crossover between Melb/Syd and AT, I would view it like how there’s Sydney, Melbourne, brisbane, etc, communities as well as an Australia community. Usually things specifically related to cities or states with their own communities would go in those communities, but sometimes whoever’s doing the posting thinks they’re significant enough to be relevant to the Australia wide comm, too