Empty communities simply take up resources. I am fine with purging ones that are empty or even not getting any recent postings. Do whatcha gotta do!
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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Worse, for me, is that they clutter the community search and explore features making it much harder to find stuff that DOES have posts.
Completely agree
I would also delete communities that have 3 cross posts from somewhere else and then we’re abandoned.
That comes later. It's a lot easier to run a query on 0 posts than more complicated criteria.
Every time I see a post like that, the next thing is me checking if our communities are still their. 😅
But of course it makes totally sense to clean up a lil bit from time to time. After some bans and some leavers, it’s good to know that we don’t have communities without reason and mods. 👍
Thank you guys for your work!
Don't worry, my shiny new community went up in smoke with .ml. :(
Is there an issue with lemmy.ml?
The mali government has effectively siezed control of all .ml domain names, making a mess of any servers dependent on them for apps, services, and SSL certificates to name a few.
Sheesh, does that mean Lemmy.ml is property of Mali now or was that sorted out? Weird to think
Slightly related but is there a way to see when a community was created? What's the threshold for newly made communities?
nope, which means there is no threshhold.
Good to know