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I wish people would write some descriptions for their communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I often browse /all, come across a post that looks interesting but I have no clue what's it about, so I check the sidebar - and all I find is "An unofficial Lemmy community for X", " A place to discuss everything about X", or the best kind, "A continuation of r/X from Reddit".

Can't people write just some basics? What is that thing, a TV show, a music band, a sports team, a tabletop game? Sometimes I really can't tell even after looking at a few posts.

Your community may be of interest to someone who stumbles upon it, not only to diehard fans.

I know sometimes that's the joke, but most times it would be simple to just use a few words. "Discuss X, a Zimbabwean spy-thriller public theatre show." There we go, now everyone knows what it is.

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[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

While we're on the subject of feedback. Would you like to take a look at my communities? I'm always looking for people who have suggestions for improvement.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In my opinion, theism and sustainability have decent descriptions, albeit a little complicated (someone who e.g. isn't a native English speaker may need a few takes).

Minimalism and libertarianism could use a paragraph to explain just some basic idea instead of a link outside. I mean, minimalism sounds kinda self-explanatory, but some may think it's about the art style.

Particl just had me confused honestly. It sounds like another bitcoin alternative with a good stuffing of grand-sounding keywords, and a link to a PDF whitepaper isn't helping. I don't like downloading random PDF and hate it when web sites do that.

Well, you can look at my communities in return and tell me what you think. (I know formuladank needs a better desc too. That's one I haven't updated properly since launch, when I didn't know if Lemmy will even take off at all.)

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hey your community descriptions are very pleasant to read and descriptive. But sometimes I have the impression that there is perhaps too much text which becomes a bit of a wall of text, especially on mobile devices (SWMemes). Also, you could perhaps format lists as such, as this can also save significantly more space (listing of other communities).

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

On SW memes I had a survey, and one of the questions I asked was if people want more descriptive rules and stuff, and most said yes. There was also demand for the special days, and people were asking about the pending subscription issue... So it just gets more expanded.

I'm only on mobile too, so it's a bit much for my taste too (I'm trying to be minimalist with this, e.g. not repeating server rules etc. which won't stop anyone from being a twat anyway).

But the actual members seem happier with this, so that's why it is that way.

As for links for related communities, I wanted it to be easier to tap the right one on a phone screen.

Numbered lists on Lemmy have the following problem:

You start with a list

Then you make a line break to add a paragraph to the first point, but it looks "outside" of the list

Now we're in the list again

But I'll see if there's anything else I can trim...

Thanks for looking.

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If they are happy let it be. I also see the problem with lists but maybe when listing nice communities to join you could go with the unsorted lists. Like that you have bullet point for each community that save up a lot of space.

I have also reviewed my community descriptions and made some significant changes to particl and libertariansim. If you want you can go over it one more time ;)

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Libertarianism looks great! Particl I'm still not sure about, but then I guess I'm not the target audience anyway, so I'll leave it in your hands :p

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha thanks. I can see that Particl's text is not explaining much but I like it like this. Actually the other text was copied over from reddit and was written by the devs themselves.