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.
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 ↩︎
these communities can always be found at this link (or under the “communities” button), if you weren’t aware ↩︎
Home improvement
I’m an industrial electrician and mostly used reddit to discuss the trade with folks on r/electricians. I realize that’s probably a bit too niche, but anything related to working on your house, general handiness, renovations, etc are all topics I enjoy discussing and others might as well.
for now i think most? or all of that can be covered by /c/DIY, which is frankly in need of some love and a userbase that kind of content would provide. failing that, Humanities or Chat are always good fallbacks for “I don’t know where this would go, immediately”