Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years

• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  A lot of the “less active ones” are completely dead. Many mid-tier topics (not niche, but not “meme shitpost”) have a sea of dead communities and 1-2 active ones and it’s difficult to find them without actually clicking through the full list of results.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Tbh, and I llan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

    If a community was active and then isn’t, that’s fine, but a lot of communities are made and then never used.

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    • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Tbh, and I plan to do this for piefed.social soon (and rimu has given me the go-ahead) - abandoned discarded communities with literally zero posts need to be purged by instances. It’s just clutter.

      Cool, but there are other instances.

      Then there is the issue of communities with a decent number of subs (much more than active communities) but where the last post was 7 months ago and they have 0 MAUs. While a community with a lot less subs can have several posts per week and at least some MAUs (couple of hundred).

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, I know. That’s why I think other instances should also do it lol

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And that’s exactly what the blogpost is trying to solve.

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  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think this could also be improved with a better search page, which shows how active the communities are in the search results so you don’t have to click through them all, I think v1.0 is getting that

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• nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would force you to write a more descriptive name. Maybe we want to hide by community title and not the handle though.

  Say you want to have a community for memes. It is terrible UX if you just see seven different “memes@domainname.ending” in the result. So with an opinionated search, you instead name your community Sopuli Memes, Solarpunk Memes, Programming Memes etc., or just Funny Memes Archive, and they would not be hidden.

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