This sub appears dead

submitted by Greebo from self.programming

Any ideas on how to drive some traffic here? I really want to see a reddit competitor thrive, but so many members (30k) and so few posts is not a good sign.

Maybe automatically scrape reddit r/programming submissions? Any other ideas?

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[–]butterferret12 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Honestly, I feel like that would just make things worse. A lot of people here tend to join, have a look around, and never come back, so the actual number of active users is probably significantly less. Adding more posts would just lead to being flooded with not submissions and few comments.

Hopefully, as reddit slowly self-immolates, more people will flock here and take up participation. I think the most effective thing we can do is spread the word that this exists.

[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What happens when you create an account is that it auto-subscribes you to all the subs which you can turn off in the preferences. I created an account over a year ago so I dunno if this feature is still a thing or if they removed the auto-sub thing as the site got more popular. But that's why the sub has 30k people.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You are right that's why it has so many. However that feature was disabled for everyone about 6 months ago.

However /s/programming is one of the default subscribed subs, of which there are about 50, so it's still getting every new member.

[–]Jesus-Christ 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ahh makes sense, thanks.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think this is the best answer. It's more of a placeholder at the moment, as are many subs. But that doesn't mean they can't start being used more right away. I would love to see more activity in this sub.