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what communities might you be interested in us adding in the near future? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org

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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

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[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know how feasible it is with a relatively small user base, but I find the various ADHD subs on Reddit to be quite useful. Given how hard it is to actually speak to a professional these days, it's nice to be able to bounce ideas off of people in the same situation.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

this (some sort of general neurodivergent or mental health community) is a good idea that will probably be a part of the next wave of community creations. no ETA on that but i can't imagine it'd be more than a few months. if we keep growing it might be a few weeks, lol. in the interim, Chat is a good place for generally bouncing ideas off of people and talking about stuff like this

[–] DJDarren@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, neurodivergency as a whole would work as there's plenty of overlap.

My only concern about it is that having no actual professionals on board could be damaging to some as misinformation gets bandied about. But the existing spaces on Reddit seem to be entirely patient-led (as it were), and they get along ok.