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soliciting a new round of community suggestions (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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update: we're compiling them now, new suggestions have about 4 hours to come in before i call it and lock the thread. thank you for all of your suggestions

following the defederations and given the inconvenience, it's time for a new round of community solicitations so we can add possible ones to our survey!

to make this easier for us, please follow a few groundrules here:

make your suggestions top level comments. do not reply to people with suggestions! they'll probably get lost and i won't get paged if you make them.
try not to make your suggestions super specific, because we probably won't do super specific ones
try not to duplicate a suggestion once it's already made (i know lemmy's display isn't great for this). while imperfect, if you like an idea please upvote it instead.
this is not intended to be a general discussion thread, so please try to keep that to a minimum. i will prune comments as needed if i think they're cramping the utility of this thread

additionally, we've already been suggested the following and those will be on the survey. i will prune any suggestion which is a duplicate of/is covered by one of these:

anime and manga
world news
tabletop gaming
vegan/vegetarian
education
parenting
camping
fitness

and for responsibility reasons we can't really offer mental-health related communities past !neurodivergence@beehaw.org, so please don't suggest those. thanks folks!

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[–] Chemslayer@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A c/Tabletop would be nice, for boardgames/card games (Magic etc)/D&D and stuff. Right now this falls under "gaming", but that community is heavily slanted towards video games (it even has a game controller as it's icon). I feel tabletop games are different enough and have different enough communities irl to be worth their own space.

Edit: derp, I carefully checked every other suggestion before I posted, but missed the list at the bottom of the OP, my bad. Consider this my vote

[–] randomnick@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are discussions about boardgames and TTRPGs in Gaming, even if that community is mainly focused on videogames

[–] Chemslayer@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but it is drowned out by video games overall, and theres a significant chunk of the population who loves Tabletop games and couldn't give a care about video games. The two hobbies are separate everywhere else, would be nice to have a dedicated space here

[–] randomnick@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

And I agree with you. I'm one of those playing solo boardgames and RPGs to avoid more screen time