they’ve still only gotten to around 20% of their original subscriber base.
Not sure that’s relevant. They used to have 915 active users for the last 6 months on the old one, they just reached 937 for this month on the new one, so I guess most of the people interested moved. Subscribers numbers are inflated as a large number of accounts aren’t active anymore.
Major communities (c/memes, c/greentext, c/news, even something like c/eurographicnovels) cannot be quickly rebuilt in such a manner, you inevitably have to start from scratch.
Why not? The main issue with the first version of a community is to get enough people in the same place. Once this is achieved, you can just announce that you are going to move, point to the new community, and then post the new content on the new community.
It even happens now with [email protected] which was created after some powertripping by the admin of [email protected]. In this case, it’s a bit different, as both communities are still open, but the fact that most of the people who posted to the old community switched to the new is enough to give the new community 2.85k monthly active users, while the old one only has 2.72k.
No need to transfer the old content, give the votes, and all of that. People just want to be where the new content is posted.
They used to have 915 users for the last 6 months on the old one, they just reached 937 for this month on the new one, so I guess most of the people interested moved.
!remindme to check their activity numbers 6 months from now and see how they compare. Hopefully it will be higher but I wouldn’t bet on it.
you can just announce that you are going to move, point to the new community, and then post the new content on the new community.
That’s the friction point. Most people aren’t as active as you are and tend to miss those kinds of announcements. Or they see an announcement and they scroll right past. That’s where you lose 90% of subscribers.
I wasn’t subscribed to the dbzer0 meme community, and I don’t expect it to replace the original one. Without knowing anything about what went down, I think y’all should just keep posting in the original community. But I will reluctantly subscribe for the time being, only because I greatly enjoy my LOTR memes and I don’t want to miss any good ones.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying that it’s very disruptive and should only be done as a last resort, because many Lemmy communities are fragile as is, and we don’t have enough activity to fill the communities that already exist. Trying to break off communities and replace communities is a dangerous game, and shouldn’t be encouraged to solve minor problems, but only for major, unavoidable problems. People are going to do what they want no matter what I say, but that’s my advice.
Not sure that’s relevant. They used to have 915 active users for the last 6 months on the old one, they just reached 937 for this month on the new one, so I guess most of the people interested moved. Subscribers numbers are inflated as a large number of accounts aren’t active anymore.
Why not? The main issue with the first version of a community is to get enough people in the same place. Once this is achieved, you can just announce that you are going to move, point to the new community, and then post the new content on the new community.
It even happens now with [email protected] which was created after some powertripping by the admin of [email protected]. In this case, it’s a bit different, as both communities are still open, but the fact that most of the people who posted to the old community switched to the new is enough to give the new community 2.85k monthly active users, while the old one only has 2.72k.
No need to transfer the old content, give the votes, and all of that. People just want to be where the new content is posted.
!remindme to check their activity numbers 6 months from now and see how they compare. Hopefully it will be higher but I wouldn’t bet on it.
That’s the friction point. Most people aren’t as active as you are and tend to miss those kinds of announcements. Or they see an announcement and they scroll right past. That’s where you lose 90% of subscribers.
I wasn’t subscribed to the dbzer0 meme community, and I don’t expect it to replace the original one. Without knowing anything about what went down, I think y’all should just keep posting in the original community. But I will reluctantly subscribe for the time being, only because I greatly enjoy my LOTR memes and I don’t want to miss any good ones.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying that it’s very disruptive and should only be done as a last resort, because many Lemmy communities are fragile as is, and we don’t have enough activity to fill the communities that already exist. Trying to break off communities and replace communities is a dangerous game, and shouldn’t be encouraged to solve minor problems, but only for major, unavoidable problems. People are going to do what they want no matter what I say, but that’s my advice.