Hi everyone! We are once again purging empty communities. It’s happening in a day or two. Make an on-topic post in your empty comm if you want to have it not purged.

  • HousePanther
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    9211 months ago

    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!

    • @xantoxis
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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.

  • @OneStepAhead
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    3711 months ago

    I would also delete communities that have 3 cross posts from somewhere else and then we’re abandoned.

    • Mikey Mongol OPMA
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      4411 months ago

      That comes later. It’s a lot easier to run a query on 0 posts than more complicated criteria.

    • @iorale
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      7 months ago

      deleted by creator

  • Patriarch 🍆😈
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    1611 months ago

    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. 👍

  • @kingarthur
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    1111 months ago

    Thank you guys for your work!

      • @lwdfwg
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        711 months ago

        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.

        • @smackmyballsoff
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          19 months ago

          Sheesh, does that mean Lemmy.ml is property of Mali now or was that sorted out? Weird to think

  • @BigMcLargeHuge
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    11 months ago

    Slightly related but is there a way to see when a community was created? What’s the threshold for newly made communities?

    • Mikey Mongol OPMA
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      111 months ago

      nope, which means there is no threshhold.