This community is:
A general purpose programming community for English speakers
Language specific posts like:
and ide specific posts like:
are not general purpose. Posts like that ruined /r/programming for me, and this community seems to be going down the same road. I’m here to read about programming concepts that can be applied to any/most languages, not patch notes for 10 different Js frameworks posted by karma farming bots. If I wanted to read posts like that, I’d have subbed to /c/javascript…
Do you agree with me that they should be removed from /c/programming, and limited only to their respective communities? Or have I missed the point of this community?
Regardless, I still feel like each instance really needs a
!mainequivalent, a default space for general submissions where posts can be cross posted to or from more specialized communities, providing exposure to a wider audience, while also letting link aggregators do what they do best by allowing users to rank what they think is relevant for the particular community, or general to the instance at large in this case.Instead of naming this kind of community explicitly as
!main, I like how!programminghas been used for this instance instead, giving it a familiar title that reflects the instance that is it’s namesake, while still encouraging this catch-all like community to remain in scope. For example,!metawould be unsuitable for this given it is already reserved for self reflection of the instance, much like Meta Stack Exchange.