Hey everyone
Theres been some discussion recently about the content allowed in this community so I wanted to make a quick poll to gauge what is wanted in terms of what people see here
The current description of the community is a bit ambiguous so this will determine whether everything is allowed here or if only more general programming topics are
You can just dm me with options ranked based on your preference (its ranked voting) to vote and ill share the results in a day of the overall vote tallies
1: Allow all posts relevant to the instance (main community)
This will let pretty much any post be able to be posted in here whether that be a help question, discussion, news, etc.
Allowed:
- What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
- Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
- Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
- [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
- Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
- Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?
Disallowed
- Things not relevant to the instance
2: Allow any posts and direct people in the comments to more specific communities for their future posts (people catching community)
This will also let any post be able to be posted in here like the previous option but will guide people towards the more specific communities in the future to make them then post the content in those
Allowed:
- What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
- Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
- Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
- [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
- Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
- Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?
Disallowed
- Things not relevant to the instance
3: Only allow topics that arent limited to one language, library, etc. (general topic community)
This will let posts such as: what is your favorite music to listen to while coding? or Here is some details about functional programming be able to be posted while something like a library for python will instead be posted in the python community
Allowed:
- What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
- Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
Disallowed
- Things not relevant to the instance
- Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
- [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
- Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
- Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?
4: Dont allow questions of how to do X in X language but allow actual discussions or news about the language in addition to general topics (general & discussion community)
Like above but also allows conversations about specific languages in the community as long as its not a question on how to do X in the language
Allowed:
- What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
- Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
- Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
- Discussion ES6 Classes. Good or Evil?
Disallowed
- Things not relevant to the instance
- Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
- [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
5: Only allow crossposts into the community with things like news being posted in the specific community first (crosspost community)
This will ONLY let crossposts be made. All other options also allow crossposts but this makes it so that the post will fill up the specific community while c/programming is a main post feed for people who want to see many different topics from the specific communities
Allowed
- anything as long as its crossposted
Disallowed
- anything not crossposted
- things not relevant to the instance
You can find some past discussion here https://programming.dev/post/388375 to see some points for the different options
Based on whats voted some other communities may be created or adapted to fit the new niche of people
(ill reply to your dm when your vote is counted, if I havent responded in awhile I may not have gotten it or im asleep)
I’ve already voted in a DM, so this is just general commentary.
I like a combination of welcoming, general discussion mixed with instructive and helpful discussion of specific topics.
To that end, I think that this specific community should welcome everyone and everything relevant to the instance, but direct people to more relevant communities as necessary. Where “as necessary” might evolve over time as this and other communities develop.
I think the second option captures that nicely. I think the first option captures the welcoming, but at the expense of possibly burying things in details that would be more effectively handled by dedicated communities.
Despite providing a ranking for the other options, I think they are all either weak compromises on what I’d like to see or outright unwelcoming. The only real reason for providing those rankings was to put the first option at the bottom :)