I’m not asking to be snarky or anything… I’m subbed to plenty of magazines that I enjoy reading.
It’s just that the front page has the “random magazines” section, and the top bar is full of a seemingly random list of unrelated magazines… and 99% of what shows up in these two places is just empty. They seem like magazines that were made as placeholders and have been sitting empty for 6 months.
These two spots seem like prime real estate that should be filled with useful subs; or at least that magazines under a certain threshold ought to be filtered out of these locations to keep them relevant.
Or am I missing something?
I don’t think you are missing anything. I’m not quite sure what the purpose of the top bar is -it doesn’t really perform a useful function at the moment.
Having it filtered by an activity threshold certainly seems like it could be a good idea
As I said in a comment elsewhere: In the movie Field of Dreams, the ghost voice says “If you build it, they will come.”, but fails to say “Oh yeah, you have to look after it once you’ve done that. You’re gonna need a ride-on mower.”
During various exoduses[1] from other social media platforms, people excitedly created accounts and also attempted to re-create the places, magazines as they’re called here, that they were familiar with. And then they didn’t want to post content in those communities, nor did they want to have to manage them, because they hadn’t done that elsewhere.
They expected the content to magically appear as it had done in those other places.
When it did not, they went elsewhere or perhaps back whence they came.
While I am very much guilty of expecting the magical appearance of posts, I can live with what’s available here, and Federated from other places. I was self-aware enough to not create any magazines, though. I do not want to buy that mower.
[1]: Exodi would be the Latinate plural. Exodoi would be the Greek. You may now relax.
None of the communities I actually need ever migrated here; most people just did not care. I still go to reddit for things relating to Japanese residency topics, finances, etc. as it is the only place I know of. I only visit those subs, though.
There are also people like me who post like one thing a year (though I comment much more).
Honestly if you see kbin magazines that are just empty and unused (as you said, lots of people have made placeholder magazines during the Redditpocalypse and then it took time to see if people would stick around, or settle on a specific magazine)), check if the owner is awol for more than a month and if so, claim the magazine and set it to delete. Ernest goes in and will clear them out (tho he’s a bit behind I assume due to all the work he’s doing right now on the software) but it will help with getting the unused ones cleared out. I got well over a dozen of em scheduled to be deleted myself, as well as 10 or so others already deleted.
The main problem is actually with users like you and I mean no offense here, people subscribe which is a great start but they fail to post or contribute in ways that can help content and start a discussion.
This post drew attention and people have commented below, but if you didn’t post this, the community’s last post would have been 2 days ago.
My point is be the change you want to see, if we want Kbin to succeed, yall gotta start posting, not just looking around.
The main problem is actually with users like you
Really, you meant no offense by that?
Jesus Christ man. I am active in the magazines that I’ve subscribed to. I post. I comment. I read. How the fuck is this my fault?
In fact, looking at your profile, I comment more than you. So don’t blame me just because I asked the question when you actually have no idea what my situation is.
Well I really didn’t look at your profile much so I am sorry if you feel personally attacked, that was not my intention.
My point is, if we all posted rather than saying “it feels empty” (not saying it just for you, saying for everyone in general here), then it would not feel so empty, as I mod some big communities here and I know for the fact that there are MANY lurkers who barely contribute, which is why it feels empty, but it’s good to see you being active.
If it feels empty, then we need to take action and be the change we want to see. That is what I mean’t and not targeting any individuals here, just saying in general.
No need to involve jesus christ, chill out :)
