Comment on Creating a new Community for Creatives/Tinkerers - (Plans to Federate)
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Maybe you’ve already looked into this, but my concern with your plan is the idea of packing up and moving to a new site and platform. What happens to existing users and post history? Building a community only to tell them they need to start all over could be detrimental.
UnfinishedProjects@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
Yeah, I totally feel this - and it’s one of the major drawbacks that I mentioned in the article. To compromise my sanity (of possibly spending a lot of time, and some money) with not losing all the progress of th community - my plan is to transfer early.
It’s not the perfect solution - I admit, but I feel that if I can just get a small handful (maybe 10-15 people are semi active/committed to the goal of the community) then I’d feel comfortable transitioning because I know we have a decent foundation to grow off from. But mainly I’m using this free hosting platform just to make sure there are actual people who are interested, and it’s not dead idea on arrival.
I will be honest though, the more I’ve been trying to get this community started - the more I’m tempted to just bite the bullet and go strait to buying a VPS and domain to set up nodeBB. I think if I can just get the feeling that people are actually interested and it’s not going to be a waste of my resources, then I might just do that.
Super valid point though. (I might even be able to find a way to save the data from this forum and preload it into the other forum - but I kind of doubt it since they are two different pieces of software)