update: we have a pretty good idea of what we’ll add to start, probably tomorrow. i’m unpinning this post and beginning to reply to posts in here with specifics. thank you for your suggestions to this point

no promises on any specific additions from me or the other mods, but now is a good time to gauge this.[1] for reference, our current 18 non-support communities are:[2]

  • Chat
  • Creative
  • Do It Yourself
  • Entertainment
  • Environment
  • Feminism
  • Finance
  • Free and Open Source Software
  • Gaming
  • Humanities
  • LGBTQ+
  • Music
  • News
  • Politics
  • Science
  • Space
  • Sports
  • Technology

try to be a little broad in your suggestions–this is still a site of just 1,000 people, so it simply can’t be as granular as reddit–but it’s fine if your suggestion is a specific subset of an already existing community or overlaps with one. Space and FOSS are some obvious examples of already existing overlap, and those communities work fine.

  1. and even if we don’t add a suggestion in the immediate term, knowing that there’s interest makes it easier to do so later ↩︎

  2. these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎

  • Butterbee (She/Her)
    18•11 months ago

    Urbanism if there’s enough interest please! Somewhere to talk about urbanist issues like cycling, transit, housing, and close to home stuff. There’s politics, but but discussing what you saw on the bike path might not fit. There’s technology which fits for things like ebikes and using speed cameras to keep stoplights red unless a car is doing the speed limit or less, but that may not fit into other spaces. Humanities would work for things like transit programs, housing programs, etc…

    So an urbanist community could encompass all of those things that would be split among different forums in one place. And hopefully be a little less abrasive than fuckcars :P

    • petrescatraian
      11•11 months ago

      @Butterbee @alyaza Urbanism would be a great addition, indeed. And fuckcars seems more like a place of venting frustration indeed. On Reddit, I subscribed to r/fuckcarsromania, where the mods actually try to create a movement and stir civic action, from reporting cars parked on the sidewalks (a rampant problem, in Bucharest, but not only) to asking authorities for more pedestrian spaces, better public transit etc.

      I imagine !urbanism@beehaw.org would be a great community to discuss different ideas and stories about better urban planning and how one can make better cities overall, as well as preserving great cities.

    • DJDarren
      9•11 months ago

      I swear half of my Reddit usage in the past few months has been NotJustBikes and FuckCars. So yeah, something like that might be nice.

    • alyaza [they/she]OPMEnglish
      5•11 months ago

      this is one we’ll be adding tomorrow as long as people are fine with the community being named “citylife”. we debated other names; in the end we think that one will cover the most topics of an urbanist nature while also still being clear in what it’s about (particularly to people who might not know what urbanism is)