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feedback requested: new communities
We have an "incubator" to develop proposals for new communities for our network. A couple proposals look to be ready to advance, and we want to make sure that everyone who's interested has a chance to provide feedback. Please provide proposal-specific feedback on the linked posts. Please provide general feedback on this post.
Worldbuilding / Scientific Speculation
We have an existing community, Scientific Speculation, "for people interested in worldbuilding or other speculative developments that can be extrapolated from science" (that's the description on codidact.com). The community currently has low activity levels.
There is a proposal for a Worldbuilding community, which would be broader than Scientific Speculation. The idea of merging Sci Spec into a Worldbuilding community, should one be viable, was brought up on Sci Spec Meta about a year ago and was positively received. Since then, the Worldbuilding proposal has had good activity in the incubator (well-received posts from a variety of people).
We are proposing to expand Scientific Speculation into a broader (and renamed) Worldbuilding community. See the posts on Scientific Speculation Meta and Proposals for the details of how this would work, and also for some questions we'd like community input on, including name and the operation of a workshop category.
Makers
We have proposals for a Home Improvement community and also for an Arts & Crafts community. There is actually a lot of overlap between the two; questions about paintbrushes, adhesives, sanders, protecting fabrics, and many more areas are the same questions whether you're refurbishing a chair or making a jewelry box. We have a proposal to create a "makers" community from these two proposals. "Makers" might not be the right name. If you are an artist, crafter, maintenance worker, builder, or maker, can you help us refine this idea?
Also...
We have other proposals in various stages of development. See the Incubator Q&A for questions. Each proposal has its own tag for easier filtering.
I gave specific feedback at the provided links, but I also want to make a general note: I am generally in favour of broa …
10d ago
Since I will be a casual participator at best, I'd rather have the core user base of each site speak up. And if there ar …
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Home Improvement and Arts & Crafts should be separate boards. They have quite different audiences. Plus, there are lar …
12d ago
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I gave specific feedback at the provided links, but I also want to make a general note: I am generally in favour of broader scope for any new communities, thus I support both combinations. Fragmentation is IMHO the worst thing we can do when we're still so small; while endless growth isn't necessary, there need to be viable seeds for communities to form. Going forward, it will always be easier to split communities than to merge them.
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Home Improvement and Arts & Crafts should be separate boards. They have quite different audiences. Plus, there are large areas which don't overlap. Building codes are an important theme for Home Improvement, but not important for Arts & Crafts. Jewelry making is far removed from Home Improvement.
Refurbishing a chair and making jewelry box are both Art & Crafts.
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Since I will be a casual participator at best, I'd rather have the core user base of each site speak up. And if there are no such core users, then the sites should probably not be launched to begin with.
For example, who will be the moderators per site? The non-staff mods at Scientific Exchange seem inactive and haven't even voiced in on meta at the (now rather old) merger proposal. What about the Markers/Home Improvement/Arts & Craft?
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