• Nothing4You
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    243 months ago

    cleaning up communities doesn’t make lemmy more active either. it may help to make active communities stand out more against inactive ones though.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      Nearly all of the search options sort your front page by activity, so removing old communities won’t make active ones stand out any more. If you’re searching for new communities and fail to notice the last message was 3 years before you posted your 900-page essay, that’s on you. Even if you make the background of stagnant communities bright red, there’s still going to be someone who complains that they somehow “didn’t get any warning”.

      Retaining old content has value, you wouldn’t believe how many answers I’ve found on 10+ year old reddit posts that have long since been archived. Information is valuable, it should never be removed unless someone is being harmed by it.

      • Nothing4You
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        133 months ago

        Retaining old content has value

        this 100%. this is exactly why i wouldn’t recommend any communities to be removed if there is still content in there, worst case just lock it.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 months ago

          Why even lock it?

          I’m not seeing a problem at all with communities that aren’t very active but where people can still post and comment.

      • Don_DickleOP
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        Yeah but on reddit if it was archived you could not comment.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          I was never sure what triggered reddit’s archive of a post. I mean even just this year I had someone send me a reply and I had no idea what they were talking about. Looked up the post, it was over three years old! And when I asked them about it, they said they knew it was old but chose to reply anyway. Some people just have really boring lives I guess.

          • @[email protected]
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            53 months ago

            Not sure how that would relate to a boring life.

            I comment on old stuff and I wish my life was more boring. My life’s adventure simply will not stop.

            Yet I find old threads and comment on them. Not sure what the connection would be.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      it may help to make active communities stand out more against inactive ones though.

      I don’t see how that would be?

      • @Sanctus
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        33 months ago

        Do you just want to own ask historians? You can make another community with that name. The display name doesnt matter. It can even be on lw.