this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
48 points (100.0% liked)

Beehaw Support

2796 readers
6 users here now

Support and meta community for Beehaw. Ask your questions about the community, technical issues, and other such things here.

A brief FAQ for lurkers and new users can be found here.

Our September 2024 financial update is here.

For a refresher on our philosophy, see also What is Beehaw?, The spirit of the rules, and Beehaw is a Community


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.


if you can see this, it's up  

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bonn2@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Something for photography / general art would be nice

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree! A community for sharing pictures (and similar) would be cool to see. Such a community would likely also encourage more OC.

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

Yeah, I'm really going to miss /r/earthporn and /r/itookapicture :(

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Almost a year ago I created my own community for nature photos at !natur@feddit.de. But since it's on a german instance with german headlines, it's probably not that appealing for most users here.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

for now, photography and general art stuff is basically covered by /c/creative, and i've edited the description to make that more apparent. if it becomes an overwhelming part of the community, that's when we'll break it out as its own community. (also see the memes consideration above; image hosting is expensive so ideally people would host their photograph offsite and link it here)