Created this thread to keep an eye on this feature as I believe it could have a huge impact on communities visibility
Edit: multicommunities / multimagazines would work similar to multireddits: they would be created by users for themselves. Users would be able to make them public if they want to, but the main use case would be private.
The idea is to be able to browse your own "memes feed" and then "news feed" without having all the content mixed in your general Subscription feed
It's not really on the radar over here. I'd like to democratise the management of topics in some way but what we have now seems to be enough at present. There is not a massive amount of active groups so one admin manually categorising them is still doable.
Right now I do this by having multiple accounts on different instances with different themes for their home feed, but I could see why this would be more efficient for a lot of people lol.
Yeah, that's one way to do it, but it's not an option for everyone.
I interact with tons of posts and post a ton, myself, so having to switch to my "main" account in order to not spread my user history across half a dozen accounts would be a pain.
IMHO this should be opt-in for communities and not left to the users alone.
The amount of low quality drive-by comments by people not understanding what a community is about and just sorting them in the broadest of categories like "technology" is bad enough as it is (and causes a lot of extra workload for community moderators).
How could it be any worse than what the all feed does? I would presume that if someone has added a community to a “multi” which they then actively view they’re at least generally interested.
I’m with you on community visibility options in general though. I’d figure that if/when private communities come, expanding that to “visible only to subscribers” would be possible and should then control the problem you raise. Or am I missing something?
Yes the all-feed is bad enough as it is, this would make it worse as on the all feed things tend to not stick around that long and get drowned out in the noise.
As for your suggestion to have "visible for subscribers only" communities. Yes that would be welcome, but obviously "multi" community subscribers are subscribers as well, so that wouldn't really solve the issue?