Any chance of getting a community for rural areas set up? Maybe c/Outback or c/Bush or similar. For topics specifically related to rural areas

I think in the long term if we continue growing, it would be best to separate this into communities for each state/territory, at least the large ones. Such as r/Vic and r/NSW over on Reddit. But while it’s still quietish here, I think a single jumbo community for basically all non urban areas would be fine

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Would we be able to get an Australian Trains or Australian Transport community running? I don’t think it’s worthwhile creating train related communities for every city, so this would essentially serve as a transport community for everywhere else in Aus outside the major cities.

I think Melbourne and Sydney are still deserving of their own communities, but !BrisbaneTrains@aussie.zone is fairly inactive, so if the over abundance of PT related communities is a concern, I’d be open to polling the few members over there on whether they’d be in favour of closing it off to new posts and redirecting people to the AusTrains community instead

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      Yeah, you definitely seem to be having the experience i’ve been having. I think for new communities, and current ones, it’d be ideal to get a few more users/mods committed to supporting those communities.

      As they say, many hands make light work. Also diversity of content is pretty hard to do by one person.

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      5 months ago

      Chux Baku, I didn’t think I was doing much :)

      AusTransport sounds nice. But what happens to the old communities, to avoid people using those? I don’t know if it’s possible to lock them and leave a notice, or unlist them somehow?