Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cs_career_questions@programming.dev
I agree about the increase on other communities (in particular the cs career questions you mentioned). I am not sure about deleting them, specifically since I consider these parts of this community as well. Just my 2 cents …
I agree about the paradox of posting about it. But the other comments here indicate that we should only direct the poster to a different community instead of reporting them.
This community got voted to be a collector community for all of the programming content in the instance
So that kind of thing is allowed to be posted here and people in the comments can give people communities to crosspost it to lead them towards that area for future posts
This makes it so users can be lead to other communities in the instance to then post in instead of not knowing where to do so (if theyre in another instance they cant browse our local communities very well in the default UI without needing a third party site)
I can add a way to automate that with a bot in the comments
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !cs_career_questions@programming.dev
fixed
I agree about the increase on other communities (in particular the cs career questions you mentioned). I am not sure about deleting them, specifically since I consider these parts of this community as well. Just my 2 cents …
true, might not be a good idea to delete them
I would report instead of posting about it, which is even more off topic.
I agree about the paradox of posting about it. But the other comments here indicate that we should only direct the poster to a different community instead of reporting them.
This community got voted to be a collector community for all of the programming content in the instance
So that kind of thing is allowed to be posted here and people in the comments can give people communities to crosspost it to lead them towards that area for future posts
This makes it so users can be lead to other communities in the instance to then post in instead of not knowing where to do so (if theyre in another instance they cant browse our local communities very well in the default UI without needing a third party site)
I can add a way to automate that with a bot in the comments
cool, thank you
Reminds me of the /r/HTML community. It’s only purpose was a catchall to guide new programmers to appropriate communities.
/c/HTML
we don’t talk about r anymore here
I think our communities are too small to worry about narrowing them. When they get too big that’s when it makes sense to split them.