Would have been a perfect opportunity to change this to Retro Handhelds or Retro Handheld+Gaming. And give SBC back to its original purpose.
Also, was this ridiculously hard to make an account for for anyone else?
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I named it like that so it’s easier for people from Reddit to find it. I prefer Retro Handhelds too, but people would not find it.
When the first of july exodus will have passed, I can make a vote to decide if we rename it or not (and also if we change the logo)
Thanks for the response! Seems like a great plan. Great points you (and the other responses) made about people searching for SBC. Maybe, even if the name of the magazine gets changed, something about SBC could still be left in there (or in the magazine profile? I dunno I’m new to lemmy/kbin =P) so people could still find it.
It’s been difficult to make accounts on other instances. I think there are issues with bots slamming the account creation pages.
Idk, I was able to find this community by searching for SBCGaming. I think the name is fine for now.
Definitely some growing pains. The bandwidth attributed was not ready for the surge of people jumping ship in less than a week. It’s already much better. On the first days, just loading the landing page would take a handful of tries (each try also adding traffic and snowballing the issue)
I heard there’s a future plan to let communities be “merged”? So you could make a sbcgaming and retrohandhelds and have them be merged.
Also, people are more likely to search for sbcgaming.
As someone completely new to handheld retro gaming and searching for “retro” communities I only managed to find this one on accident. Even as I type this I have no idea what “SBC” stands for. Had the About page not explained things I would have continued right past this. My 2 cents from someone discovering this scene post reddit exodus.
