There are 11,126 posts. So that's about 7 posts per sub. I am trying to funnel posts towards notable subs a bit, which is why there are sub suggestions on the form. That should be a bit of a nudge.
The question is what even is the ideal? Does it matter? I think maybe it would be that majority of posts link to a sub that has more than a single page? I think that's mostly true right now. Looking at the top 5 posts right now 4/5 belonged to a major sub. That seems reasonable.
Funnelling posts is a good idea. I like the compromise of any sub being created if you just type it in. Things like just having news and politics in the top list without having to splinter it further into world news and world politics keeps things cleaner and more concentrated.
I think it matters. Because the #1 goal of a forum is engagement, the size of the user population would determine the ideal number of subs. One way to funnel people to the 'top subs' would be incentives, like increased visibility for that top sub's post. It seems you already do this by awarding more points for posts to some of the top subs.
That's why I'm for replacing subs/topics with votable tags - then we could downvote the misspelled tag, and upvote the right one.
But even better solution which I proposed is to export a huge set of wikipedia entry names to use a subset of those as tags, no typos with this approach.
I've pitched that for years with my MetaVote™ concept.
On the left a feelz 5x5 grid of 25 options, Meh in the middle with the corners: Wise, Fun, Daft, Loath - each the same distance from each other, with gradients like halfway between Wise and Fun is Witty. Meh notes it's been seen with no strong feelings in any direction - and could bring up or down the average.
On the right a topix 5x5 grid of 25 overarching topics (TBD), and a click on any of the 16 outer-edge topics could pop up another 5x5 grid. For example, click on Science and then 25 sub-fields of Science can be selected. That's 25 topic options, plus the extra 400 pop-up topics covers a lot of ground. Of the 9 non-outer-edge topics, the center could be "Other" with a prompt to enter a new topic.
One or both of these could become revolutionary forum paradigms.
But even better solution which I proposed is to export a huge set of wikipedia entry names to use a subset of those as tags, no typos with this approach.
YES!!!
Coming from being active on Wikipedia, and from 2018 onward on SaidIt, I kept strongly recommending we curate and organize the sub titles - and tried many things in the wikis, multisubs, and other things. Wikipedia has the best category system I know of, a hierarchy that includes multitudes of parents (but you have to avoid loops).
All of this is great and ambitious - but IMO the most important thing at this stage of forum development is getting comments feeds (site wide, sub wide, and user - measured by votes or chronology) and practical messaging (ideally like Gmail's GUI IMO).
I got to know him as well as almost anyone could in 2018-2019 and became extremely disappointed by magnora7 about 5 to 8 months in (and it was really tough on my mental health, then being much more fragile than now). I've been on GoatMatrix for 2 years and there's nothing to complain about with x0x7. Thus, as things are (always with potential to change), I can confidently say this seems like a good place I could grow old in. Dare I say home.
You can go to sub page to look what else was posted there. But yeah, it's better to call them topics as there's no sub mods here, so those are hardly communities.
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/substats isn't anywhere close to comprehensive. I just checked. It is 1,541 subs.
How many posts?
There are 11,126 posts. So that's about 7 posts per sub. I am trying to funnel posts towards notable subs a bit, which is why there are sub suggestions on the form. That should be a bit of a nudge.
The question is what even is the ideal? Does it matter? I think maybe it would be that majority of posts link to a sub that has more than a single page? I think that's mostly true right now. Looking at the top 5 posts right now 4/5 belonged to a major sub. That seems reasonable.
Funnelling posts is a good idea. I like the compromise of any sub being created if you just type it in. Things like just having news and politics in the top list without having to splinter it further into world news and world politics keeps things cleaner and more concentrated.
I think it matters. Because the #1 goal of a forum is engagement, the size of the user population would determine the ideal number of subs. One way to funnel people to the 'top subs' would be incentives, like increased visibility for that top sub's post. It seems you already do this by awarding more points for posts to some of the top subs.
Less than I thought - ~1% of those are mine (5 pages + 2 posts = 127)
LOL - that's almost as many subs as there are posts. I wonder why a user would want to make so many of them.
Some of those need typo corrections.
That's why I'm for replacing subs/topics with votable tags - then we could downvote the misspelled tag, and upvote the right one.
But even better solution which I proposed is to export a huge set of wikipedia entry names to use a subset of those as tags, no typos with this approach.
YES!!!
I've pitched that for years with my MetaVote™ concept.
On the left a feelz 5x5 grid of 25 options, Meh in the middle with the corners: Wise, Fun, Daft, Loath - each the same distance from each other, with gradients like halfway between Wise and Fun is Witty. Meh notes it's been seen with no strong feelings in any direction - and could bring up or down the average.
On the right a topix 5x5 grid of 25 overarching topics (TBD), and a click on any of the 16 outer-edge topics could pop up another 5x5 grid. For example, click on Science and then 25 sub-fields of Science can be selected. That's 25 topic options, plus the extra 400 pop-up topics covers a lot of ground. Of the 9 non-outer-edge topics, the center could be "Other" with a prompt to enter a new topic.
One or both of these could become revolutionary forum paradigms.
YES!!!
Coming from being active on Wikipedia, and from 2018 onward on SaidIt, I kept strongly recommending we curate and organize the sub titles - and tried many things in the wikis, multisubs, and other things. Wikipedia has the best category system I know of, a hierarchy that includes multitudes of parents (but you have to avoid loops).
All of this is great and ambitious - but IMO the most important thing at this stage of forum development is getting comments feeds (site wide, sub wide, and user - measured by votes or chronology) and practical messaging (ideally like Gmail's GUI IMO).
I got to know him as well as almost anyone could in 2018-2019 and became extremely disappointed by magnora7 about 5 to 8 months in (and it was really tough on my mental health, then being much more fragile than now). I've been on GoatMatrix for 2 years and there's nothing to complain about with x0x7. Thus, as things are (always with potential to change), I can confidently say this seems like a good place I could grow old in. Dare I say home.
Wow! :o
Subs are autocreated on posting, just post to /s/Corruption.
Oh, that's nifty.
https://goatmatrix.net/s/Corruption
Why have subs If you can't subscribe tho? It's just one front page really. Which is cool actually. You should expand to have subs if more people join.
You can go to sub page to look what else was posted there. But yeah, it's better to call them topics as there's no sub mods here, so those are hardly communities.
Yeah it's a minor issue really I mean not an issue at all but maybe it would be if this site gets tons of users.