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With the new GameDev and Culture parties did I miss any obvious subs?(self)
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I don't know if any of you have clicked on the new parties. I think their content has turned out pretty good. Check em out.

GameDev Party
Culture Party

For people seeing this from the outside, a party is like a lemmy instance without needing to host anything.

I think the off the bat quality of these parties has proven that the new standard filter scheme I used for them is now the established sane default. Though still anything can be done for a party.

Some back story: I moved party configs from being a series of files with logic hard coded in the site for how to read them, to a single code file for each party that exports functions that can then read config files at their leisure. This opened up what parties can do and what logic they do. This moved a party's filters from being a setup where the party specifies if either white list mode or black list mode is applied per the categories of [topics,users,domains,origins,type,tags] to being able to do literally anything. But with anything possible it raised the question; Well what specifically as a reasonable example?

Well I think I found it.

(+[white topics] +[origin])-([preferred exceptions]).

So the go to way to setup a party will be pick the subs and subtract exceptions if needed. The +origin part means if something is submitted from that party, even to a non-default sub for that party, it will show.

This makes a party it's own space with unlimited subs, but it will pull in content from the broader universe if it went into certain related subs.

I think I've mostly nailed the default subs for both, but I could always use a second eye.

For GameDev we have: Gaming, GameDev, Programming, Projects, MatrixDev, GameArt, LevelDesign

For Culture we have: Books, Film, Television, Movies, MusicVideos, Gaming, OldVideos, Food, Cooking, Poetry, Art, Photography, Travel, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 70s, 60s, 50s.

I'm pretty happy with it and want to be a bit selective. If any communities form within those parties all their submissions will be included anyway. But maybe there is a sub or two I'll end up kicking myself for not including.

Maybe an example for GameDev, Animation?

Notice the inclusion of both Film and Movies. Having infinite subs means content can be scattered. So synonyms can be useful. I guess the real measure if we need the synonym is, have we actually posted to it and do we post to both about equally.

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[-]newJiminy4(+3|0)

What are parties? I click on that and it's just goatmatrix? Is it like a group of posts that share similarities?

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[-]x0x73(+2|0)

Yeah. That can be one way to look at them. Posts that fit in a broader topic. That or it can be thought of as semi-separate communities. It's sort of like how if you use a fork as a knife then it's a knife, and if you use a knife as a fork then it's a fork. You can basically use parties for either of those two things. Broader category than a sub, or a separate community focused on a topic.

The culture party is probably a better case for the first case. A good place to go when you want to look at music and stuff.

The gaming/gamedev party, I want to turn it into a proper community.

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[-]newJiminy3(+2|0)

Cool, good idea.

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[-]x0x72(+1|0)

Thanks!

I could always use some help filling in the gaming / gamedev party.

I was so excited about how good it looked I started posting to a lot of the topics lately to make it just a bit better. I ended up dominating it. Woops. It was balanced before I did that. So I limited myself on the page to help re-balance it, partially.

But if some other people helped post to some of those topics it will help make growing the site easier. Parties are the path forward. If we make them good, we can grow the site. But it's going to be a team effort.

Once we prove the concept then we can figure out the next party we want to create and grow, which could be anything. But we have to prove that this can work to grow the site before we can re-invest on the concept.

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[-]newJiminy1(0|0)

Where are links to these parties on this site? Like it's linked in this post here. You say you're not sure if anyone's clicked on these parties, I'm not sure if anyone could, this is first time hearing about it.

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[-]x0x71(0|0)

Ah. It's in the sidebar.

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[-]newJiminy1(0|0)

Ah ok I see. That sidebar is usually off for me unless I click on settings on the top right.

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