{"id":282,"date":"2024-12-30T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2024-12-30T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T23:52:25","slug":"gauging-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/archives\/282","title":{"rendered":"Gauging Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s been talk about fandom being too decentralized as of late, and I&#8217;ve had an idea that&#8217;s been rambling around my head for a while now. \u00a0While it sounds good to me, I want to gauge interest before undertaking our Next Big Thing.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are at least a bit knowledgeable about Reddit &#8211; how it&#8217;s set up into a main site, and how each individual interest becomes its own subreddit. \u00a0You subscribe to what subreddits interest you, and you can interact with people on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>Well what if we had something like that, but just for fandom? \u00a0Here&#8217;s basically what I have sketched out how the site would work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A subreddit for just fandom discussions<\/li>\n<li>A subreddit for slash discussions<\/li>\n<li>A subreddit for things like style guides, suggestions from others on tools to use, etc.<\/li>\n<li>A subreddit for discussing Fandom 1<\/li>\n<li>A subreddit for fic recs for Fandom 1 &#8211; either for ALL fic in that fandom or for relationship 1 from Fandom1. \u00a0If we go with the latter, then there would also be:<\/li>\n<li>A subreddit for fic recs for Fandom 1 relationship 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something like this &#8211; except we would be using open source code that works and looks like Reddit &#8211; not Reddit itself. \u00a0If we do this, you would have one place for story recs instead of a multitude of individual fic recs sites, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So questions are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Is this of interest to you? \u00a0Do you think you would use it?<\/li>\n<li>What do you think of the idea overall? \u00a0Do you think fandom would use it?<\/li>\n<li>If you were to use it, do you think you would be willing to assist if need be? \u00a0Like SquidgeWorld uses quite a few tag wrangers. \u00a0I&#8217;d think we might need some folx in similar fashion, but maybe more in a Moderator type role.<\/li>\n<li>Other thoughts?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s been talk about fandom being too decentralized as of late, and I&#8217;ve had an idea that&#8217;s been rambling around my head for a while now. \u00a0While it sounds good to me, I want to gauge interest before undertaking our Next Big Thing. Most people are at least a bit knowledgeable about Reddit &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia","tag-future-projects","eq-blocks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squidge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}