Hacker News with Generative AI: Community Management

Your Discord Community Is Dead (bearblog.dev)
There's a special kind of sadness to an empty Discord server. The meticulously planned category structure. The welcome bot with its automated messages. And in every channel, the same tumbleweeds rolling by.

Community Management, Discord, Online Communities

16 points by andout_ 12 days ago | 0 comments

Few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle (dang) expends running HN (2020) (twitter.com)

Hacker News, Social Media, Community Management

11 points by punnerud 13 days ago | 3 comments

Ask HN: Less People are visiting *NEW* submission Page, How to get traction (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Less People are visiting *NEW* submission Page, How to get traction

Hacker News, User Engagement, Community Management, Website Traffic

12 points by habibksan 42 days ago | 5 comments

WordPress contributor banned for asking about new checkbox (twitter.com)

WordPress, Community Management, Social Media, Online Communities

31 points by that_guy_iain 43 days ago | 8 comments

Matt Mullenweg trying to change /r/Wordpress to /r/WordPress (reddit.com)
Howdy mods, I have confirmation from u/spez that if the mods here send a request to him, they can capitalize the P. Can we fix this together? It's been years!

Reddit, Community Management, Subreddits, Naming Conventions

25 points by rob 47 days ago | 12 comments

Reddit communities will require permission while going private (techcrunch.com)
Last year, while opposing Reddit’s API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW.

Reddit, Moderation, Community Management, Social Media, Platform Changes

13 points by mdotk 52 days ago | 3 comments

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (theverge.com)
Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.

Social Media, Reddit, Censorship, Moderation, Community Management

11 points by rntn 52 days ago | 12 comments

Permission now required to take subreddits private (reddit.com)
Starting today, updating Community Type settings requires a moderator to submit a request.

Reddit, Community Management, Moderation

57 points by focusedone 52 days ago | 35 comments

Godot social media account blocks titanium level backer for the Godot fund (twitter.com)

Godot Engine, Crowdfunding, Community Management

51 points by neonsunset 53 days ago | 13 comments

Attracting and Retaining Debian Contributors (lwn.net)
Many projects struggle with attracting and retaining contributors; Debian is no different in that regard. At DebConf24, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara and Lucas Kanashiro gave a presentation about efforts that the Brazilian Debian community has made to increase participation. Their ideas and the lessons learned can be applied more widely, both for other Debian communities and for other projects.

Open Source, Debian, Community Management, Software Development

153 points by sohkamyung 62 days ago | 126 comments

Ask HN: User communities that aren't Discord? (ycombinator.com)

Community Management, User Forums, Online Communities

41 points by legendofbrando 131 days ago | 66 comments

Ask HN: A Reddit alternative only for humans; how would you do it? (ycombinator.com)

Reddit, Social Media, User Experience, Community Management

10 points by punkpeye 136 days ago | 10 comments

Twitch removes every member of its Safety Advisory Council (engadget.com)

Twitch, Streaming, Online Safety, Community Management

73 points by keploy 171 days ago | 81 comments

The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture (github.com/nrdxp)

Open Source, Community Management, Operating Systems

66 points by srid 209 days ago | 92 comments