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Site direction: What happens next?
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This post is for bouncing around thinking and ideas around future plans for monyet.cc!
Where we are now
As of 25 June, we have achieved a minimum bar for success vs. our goals on this post.
- We have proven that our community can defintely set up shop here. Hundreds of people have switched over very smoothly: posters, readers, regulars, everyone.
- What this means: We have built the boats. If reddit dies, either suddenly or gradually over years, we won’t lose the community we’ve created together.
- Before reddit there were lots of cosy forums across the internet. In the worst case, we can be one of them.
- A huge thank-you to everyone who has created an account and taken part in this experiment. Especially those of you who have been helping to make this place lively and fun ❤️
The next challenge
r/Malaysia comes back online tomorrow. Can we keep this place alive and healthy, and build it into something that can thrive independently of Reddit Inc.?
- This seems much smarter than just declaring success and putting the site in hibernation.
- monyet.cc could be a sister community like our Discord and r/malaysians, except not be 100% dependent on Reddit for new users!
- We know it can be done, because lowyat.net does it: they have literally millions of users.
What helps our chances: This week we've confirmed that this platform can serve the community in many ways that reddit can't. Because we now have "subreddits":
- Local language communities, like 中文嘛嘛档 and Berita
- Local interest communities, like AMG, Pets, Meme Everyday. Food hunting, meetup groups, relationship advice, students, bargain hunting, etc.
- Local classifieds! Job boards, buying and selling, dating / personal ads, promoting local artists, newtubers, businesses, etc.
Big questions
1. Direction: What do people think about this direction? This is still very young thinking.
2. Growth: Having all of this good stuff depends on us convincing lots of users to regularly use monyet.cc. Any thoughts on how to do this?
- Our current best idea is that instead of competing with the types of content on r/my, we could try to be a complement: focus on stuff we can't offer there.
- For example, we remove a lot of classifieds, newtubers, etc. We could start redirecting all this here.
- What kinds of content might people enjoy coming here regularly for?
Thanks again everyone!!
We still have a lot of bed making to do. A lot of hyper-local/hyper-topical communities are yet to be created. Some are trivial (region/state/city subs/communities) and some are not. I'd like to go ahead and create some of these but I'm in all levels of indecisiveness e.g.
And most importantly I don't want to be mod (aka landed gentry) to so many communities at once lol
What I think we can do is mirror lowyat's boards as communities to hopefully cover most of the bases. After we have that then we have the pull factor to attract terminally online monyets away from leddit. Show them "See how much more stuff we have!"
It's all my personal opinion, so...:
1)Hmm, it's kinda up to you to split it however you want, but since this server is in its infancy, if it's me imo i'd just group it together into one community with ambiguous name, so when the growth is exceeding the capability of the community, then you(or anyone willing to) can branch off.
2)up to you, but it's best you help contribute to the existing community instead of make up new one that's empty.
3)it's okay, me neither! That's why i keep it to two communities that i can pump out content with, while helping with news article here and there.
I think for now it's best to nurture a few community first instead of create a huge load of communities and hope it took off. Lyn took decades to be where they are, and we only exists for 7 days.
I concur too. Rather than create so many new communities in one go, focus on the currently viable few. We can use the cafe sub to gauge interest in topics that are gathering a lot of interest and build new communities when there are enough people to keep it active.
I agree with other commenters – while it'd be good to have some of these groups eventually, we prob shouldn't make a bunch of communities ahead of time, that we can't sustain readership for. Namesquatting and ghost towns will turn users away, vs creating as we go!
I also agree we can seed a few communities to start though! Bit by bit.