walden

I still don’t know what the drama is.

Thanks for your insight. The daily threads are an important aspect to how we want the community to be organized. The users there are accustomed to this type of organization. The alternative is something like https://thesimplecorner.org/c/wicked_edge, where there’s a new post for each “shave of the day”. The more users you have, the more cluttered it gets.

With the current traffic that we have, daily threads might be overkill, but we want to be set up for success from the start. As it stands, you can open one thread to read everyone’s “shave of the day” posts, make conversation, etc. You can scroll and see everyone’s posts instead of clicking “back”, looking for the next one, opening them in a bunch of different tabs, etc.

It’s still alive and well. r/wetshaving is organized differently and has a great community feel to it. In general, the people in r/wetshaving are more discerning about their hobby than what you might find at r/wicked_edge. There are giveaways (PIFs), contests, the occasional review, dedicated threads for certain types of posts, etc. Wicked Edge is a bit of a free-for-all for people who prefer that format.

!wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social

I took over and got an auto-bot going for the daily threads. We have a small but active core group of people there, and I have another buddy lined up to help run the place when he has more time.

It was a lot busier during the reddit boycott, but most people have returned to reddit… July and August have some big “events” at r/wetshaving that a ton of people participate in, so activity has moved back there.

A big problem that !wetshaving ran into was the bot breaking with the upgrade to 0.18.x, which had the unfortunate timing of happening when everyone helping run the place got really busy with one of the reddit events, and it made it seem like the instance had been abandoned.

I think over time it’ll develop into a decent community. My next project is hosting a wiki based on the r/wetshaving wiki.