Submitted 4 weeks ago by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?
Post stuff akin to what’s on /r/patientgamers. Comment on posts.
Yeah. Commenting is important. I look at my feed under Hot and I see a bunch of new posts over the last few hours and they all have 0 comments. Lemmy w/o comments is just a community-driven RSS feed. I comment first when I actually have something to add but it’s just as important as posting new links.
A new post with a single comment gets more weight than an day old post with 10. So sort by new and comment so more people see it.
So, just looking at the top 15 items of what’s presently on /r/patientgamers:
old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/
A daily daily stickied post for small, general conversation where people don’t want to do a full submission.
People talking about their impressions on games that they’ve just finished or played: 10
Broader discussion items (“Did anyone else like Skyrim, but wasn’t able to get into Fallout 4?”, “The Borderlands Movie Should Have Adapted Telltale’s Tales from the Borderlands”, “Help Me Remember - Gaming’s Keepsakes”): 3
Talking about a series overall (“I’m glad Need for Speed games are still focussing on the story”): 1
A low effort post day would help. Meme Monday or something.
I liked the weekly/bi-weekly „What are you playing“ posts, but they seem to have stopped, even on the bigger „games“ subs.
I‘d post about games I‘ve played lately (like Unravel) but I feel like „was a cool game with a cool style which made me enjoy the graphics even today and was interesting to platinum“ doesn‘t start much of a discussion.
Maybe I‘m just jaded by Reddit‘s „ackshually“ culture that jumps on you if a post‘s not a well thought out thesis, but I feel pressured to deliver substantial quality when posting (not commenting) on boards and I‘m too tired from the day for that.
Which is why I liked the „What are you playing“ posts since I could just drop a one liner and comment on other one liners of people who are enjoying games I‘ve enjoyed as well lol
I‘d post about games I‘ve played lately (like Unravel) but I feel like „was a cool game with a cool style which made me enjoy the graphics even today and was interesting to platinum“ doesn‘t start much of a discussion.
I’ll be the first to admit I mainly lurk, but I’d be interested to read about games people find interesting. Who knows, might be a title which flew under my radar and was one introduction away from being my all time favorite.
But yea, the “what are you playing” threads were fun reads.
I think it’s lower pressure to post comments in those threads, too. People like to talk about what they are playing, but sometimes they only have the time/effort for a sentence or two.
I liked the weekly/bi-weekly „What are you playing“ posts, but they seem to have stopped, even on the bigger „games“ subs.
Well, !gaming@beehaw.org and !games@sh.itjust.works both have stickied posts from this week of that sort up with activity. How many gaming subs do you read?
I‘m on another patient gamers sub, and the games sub on lemmy.world. The biggest weakness of Lemmy IMO is how fractured communities can become due to very similar subs on different instances - which this is now an example of, I suppose, since I had no idea about the ones you mentioned lol
I‘ll check them out later, although it obviously doesn‘t help this sub specifically
In my experience, having a weekly sticky like that is essential for engagement. There are plenty of people here, they just aren’t making threads. If you get people in the habit of dropping by once a week, they are more likely to post.
I’d also make the suggestion to scale the rule back to 6 months from 12. It’s a good idea in general for a slow community and there were multiple big games that came out in that month 7 through 12 time period. Can always change it back when the community is active. /r/patientgamers was 6 months until semi-recently.
That said, this doesn’t have to be a carbon copy of the subreddit. I liked the Meme Monday suggestion that was posed. Anything to drive engagement.
I would enjoy this as well
Post when games get a free day on platforms like Steam or GOG?
Post when games are at a new low price point (< $20 USD and < 50% their launch price?)
I’m waiting for Rimworld to drop to $15.
Just be patient bro
Like others have mentioned, I am in the same boat of having multiple communities to follow with the same name but on different instances and I forget about others or (more likely) don’t even know that others exist.
It does bug me that I can’t group communities that exist on different instances together. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to a collection of communities that I can give a label to.
A way to group all patientgamers communities together would be a huge help.
It’s just the way the whole federation stuff works I guess. And I like it…Except for when I don’t 😂
Send a suggestion to your Lemmy app developer! That honestly sounds like a great idea I could see being implemented by like Sync or something.
Post more?
We’ve had trouble over at truegaming getting things cooking as well. Maybe I can reach out to the mods and see if there’s some cooperation to be had here as we’re likely too fragmented at present. I’ll talk to our mod team today and see if we can think of something.
!truegaming@kbin.social. Try to use the bang syntax when linking communities rather than direct linking it like that, so that others can click it and access it from their own instance.
Also, on the user side of that, note that there’s a Firefox and Chrome extension, “Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin” where one can set one’s home instance. It’ll add a button in the sidebar on remote instances where one can just click on “view in my home instance”.
!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
I know that works for Kbin users, but I’m not always 100% clear on what works for other instances, so I just go with my old habit of linking the URL. Sounds like that’s a bad habit though!
Even if it makes sense to have all of them, becuase they have different-but-similar purposes or goals, maybe they can crosslink to each other in their sidebars. Some subreddits have had luck cross-promoting like that.
I can’t post about game impressions that often because I am very slow at my gaming… With that said I just finished The Last Window for Nintendo DS again (remember next to nothing about the plot) and god I had a blast with it!
I recommend it to anyone who is looking for a visual novel, but it would be wiser to play Hotel Dusk first if you haven’t yet, as The Last Window is a sequel.
I posted a question to my hometown lemmy community and wondered why I wasn’t getting any responses. Then realised it had ~1 active user per month… who was probably me.
This community seems pretty jumping by comparison!
If it is a community rather than an instance it might still get some views. A lot of people on Lemmy are still browsing by all/new and they’d see it in that instance and wherever that community is federated.
Did not know this existed. Can't say I specifically wait three months but tend to just play what comes my way. I like never complete games so they go on forever for me. Imma sub.
Kinda the same, and it's almost an irony since I'm on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I've ever seen on my front page from it.
I like never complete games so they go on forever for me.
Perfectly acceptable for roguelikes!
The monthly recommendation thread is from 3 months ago so doing that regularly is a start. It at least shows the community is active if it gets updated on time.
I dunno I never really fit in that sub because I am not only a patient gamer but I also don’t care to play every game under the sun. I’m patient because I don’t spend money on upgrading my rig and because I enjoy playing 1 game for 1000 hours rather than 100 games for 10 hours. I just beat MHW: Iceborne recently and like, that’s pretty cool. I might buy the new Diablo 2 update some day maybe. What else do I gotta say?
You sound like you might enjoy a Steam Deck. So many great games available on PC, you don’t even need to take a glance at any micro transaction infested games.
Mobile games have basically always been like that. It’s practically Shovelware: The Industry. They’re cheap and quick to make compared to other games and mtx make crazy money, so they’re basically the equivalent of those cheap Chinese clothing brands that pop up out of nowhere for a month on Amazon and then change names to something like Zivaldie.
I was really disappointed by mobile games on Android when I jumped on that, though some of it is just that the things that I’d call at least halfway decent are also released on other platforms.
I would recommend looking at Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which a roguelike aimed at a touch interface that’s open-source, free, and on F-Droid.
The creator even hopped over here to !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world.
I could be very much wrong since it depends on what communities one subscribes to but I’m getting a feeling that activity on Lemmy is decreasing in general.
Lemmy 0.19 changed how monthly active users are counted (including upvotes) and lemmy.world upgraded to that version 3 months ago. I’d be more interested in post and comment counts.
I’d agree and I think especially the amount of comments per post has reduced.
I am not sure activity has changed much. I'm getting around 8 messages on my instance (that's not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.
This is actually one of the two most active game-related communities on Lemmy I’ve seen. I’m not sure what revitalization is even needed.
I think the two main points would be already mentioned regular “what are you playing” posts and just writing yourelf whenever you have a chance. I think that livier communities encourage engagement while “dead” ones make people less willing to participate as that means they’ll more likely to become the center of attention and not everyone is comfortable with that.
Personally, I’ve been meaning to write some posts about the stuff I played recently but just didn’t have time to do so. Maybe this week…
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Wait 3 years and post when upvotes are cheap.
apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I always wait for vote sales. People preordering upvotes are crazy
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
c/PatientPatientGamingPosting
gazter@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I’ve got a whole library of upvotes that I haven’t even used yet.
ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t forget to make sure it’s a “complete” or “GOTY” post, nothing worse than waiting for a bad deal
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I agr
Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also all the gramatical errors will have been fixed by then.