Welcome everyone to our new Melbourne-flavoured slice of the internet!
I am RustyRaven one of the moderators of this community (AKA BrightFadedDog). I am working to develop some community guidelines so we can make sure that the community stays a productive and welcoming place, and would like to hear what you want.
What would you like the group to focus on? Do you like to dip into the group for a quick update on the latest local news and carrot man sightings, or do you want to spend time with deeper ongoing discussions? Would you prefer to keep the posts strictly to things concerning Melbourne, or would you prefer to be able to be able to get a local perspective on wider issues?
Suggestions for the best way to arrange posts are also welcome – particularly if we should separate some areas of discussion into separate regular or ongoing posts. We could for example have a post for restaurant recommendations or activity suggestions.
I’d also like to know whether you would value having a wiki or other reference source connected to the community.
Feel free to add any ideas, suggestions or things to aim for.
I fully expect r/melbourne to be back online soon enough and for this place to lose traction / users. We'll be back at the whims of the mods there. I wouldn't put too much effort into this place until /r/melbourne has been down for a month... unless you like coding and working out a new site then go hard.
We will have to see what actually happens, but I am definitely doing it because I am interested in learning how - both in terms of planning how to operate a group and in how to do coding/automation. And just in case the little sewing group I created takes off it could be handy there too - you never know when a darning discussion could get out of control 🤣
My philosophy at the moment is it is better to assume this is long term and prepare for it than have it happen unexpectedly and have to scramble to try to catch up. A good structure and setup can't hurt anything, but not having it potentially could.