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Feb 5, 2025 at 12:22 comment added Journeyman Geek Until the company is willing to directly invest into community growth - in terms of stickiness over 'raw' numbers, and getting into a position where, say the old users are actually convinced investing their time into rebuilding their old sites, well, I feel like the metrics kind of speak for themselves. We're often told things need to change, and we need to adjust. Perhaps its also true of how the company treats the public Q&A communities too. There's some changes that could put some meat on those tired old bones the company should consider, even if they're relics of older times
Feb 5, 2025 at 12:21 comment added Journeyman Geek My personal preference is to convince people to embrace a little chaos but not too much, but that's a cultural change that needs heaps of the ability to leverage a certain sort of moral suation. I think to an extent, systems have clear, neat, metrics. Cultural change needs effort, long term engagement, and a certain degree of trust, And I do mean last survivors when a good chunk of the 'former' SE communities care about what happens here, but aren't here. I'm mostly going on a certain degree of stubbornness, and sometimes excessive optimism myself.
Feb 3, 2025 at 23:40 comment added Slate StaffMod I wonder then what would be required to reorganize around the creation of order, and the preservation / maintenance of artifacts. It's inarguably something we can do, and I think you're right that it's not good to view it as a systems-only problem. But there's no denying the systems have a significant role to play regardless.
Feb 3, 2025 at 23:39 comment added Slate StaffMod The first comment that occurs to me is to say that "last survivors" might honestly be a little bleak. Yes, we've taken consierable losses as a unified community, that's certainly true. But there are still enough of us here to do what is necessary. Which is to say that I tend to think we have strong bones, but also that we have enough of a committed core to make the future work. Your observation they've mostly stayed above the drama is probably true, though. That means some part of this will necessarily entail convincing a new generation to care about the future, even if there's drama.
Jan 28, 2025 at 0:29 comment added Slate StaffMod Not ignoring, just thinking.
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