Another purge of empty communities

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.

278 points · 12 comments · view on lemmy.world

12 Comments

housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com · 89 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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@lemmynsfw.com · 20 pts · 3y

Worse, for me, is that they clutter the community search and explore features making it much harder to find stuff that DOES have posts.

72bitvirgins@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 3y

Completely agree

OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com · 33 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

MikeyMongol@lemmynsfw.com · 32 pts · 3y

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

iorale@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 3y
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Patriarch@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 3y

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@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 3y

Thank you guys for your work!

HR_Pufnstuf@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Don't worry, my shiny new community went up in smoke with .ml. :(

kingarthur@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Is there an issue with lemmy.ml?

lwdfwg@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y

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

BigMcLargeHuge@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 3y

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

BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
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