Existing members can send their invites to non-redditor friends and that's probably the best way to go about it right now.
I don't think there's an overwhelming risk of having just a transplant of reddit culture seeing as many of the veterans are so quick to helpfully and constructively point out the differences between the two and the new users are catching on somewhat quickly.
On that note there certainly are aspects that would be nice to see. Right now the only downside to snapzu is the lack of the utterly massive community reddit had, and for right now redditors are the largest user influx which I regard as a good thing (though I'm horribly biased in this regard). We need more users to grow some of the smaller more niche communities.
Really, the one thing I don't want to see is a bunch of people becoming inactive after the heat dies down because some of their interests were not being fed here due to the small user side.
I'm one of the migrants from reddit. I haven't left reddit entirely, but I'm getting that feeling of being on a sinking ship with all of the controversies lately.
While I've only been on Snapzu for a little while now, it's my favorite alternative that I've tried. I really like the layout and interface, and everyone here seems to be really awesome. The smaller userbase is also really encouraging to me, as well.
That said...I have definitely been missing some of the smaller communities I was a part of at reddit. Everything I've searched for so far does have a 'tribe', but most of the areas are completely blank. That's kind of concerning to me.
We'll see how things shake out, though. I definitely want to love snapzu. It looks great, so far!
Well, if a community you want is empty, that's a golden opportunity to start posting content there to get them started.
It's kind of a Catch-22. Everyone loves these smaller niche communities, but when they find them they're empty so they move on. It takes a couple of people to step in and start posting and engaging like crazy so that the next person that comes by looking for their niche sees that it's active and decides to stay and contribute.
That's exactly what I took from it, as well. I figure that in smaller communities, there's that much more of a responsibility on each person to create the kind of community that they want to be a part of. I think that's fair. It just might be the kind of challenge that is both fun and rewarding. Thanks for the thoughts.
Yep, I've never moderated anything (on reddit) before, but I've decided to pitch in some time and try to get a few of the niche communities started up. I may be posting stuff into a space no one but myself visits for a long while, but hopefully someday when someone does show up they'll stick around.
Existing members can send their invites to non-redditor friends and that's probably the best way to go about it right now.
I don't think there's an overwhelming risk of having just a transplant of reddit culture seeing as many of the veterans are so quick to helpfully and constructively point out the differences between the two and the new users are catching on somewhat quickly.
On that note there certainly are aspects that would be nice to see. Right now the only downside to snapzu is the lack of the utterly massive community reddit had, and for right now redditors are the largest user influx which I regard as a good thing (though I'm horribly biased in this regard). We need more users to grow some of the smaller more niche communities.
Really, the one thing I don't want to see is a bunch of people becoming inactive after the heat dies down because some of their interests were not being fed here due to the small user side.
I'm one of the migrants from reddit. I haven't left reddit entirely, but I'm getting that feeling of being on a sinking ship with all of the controversies lately.
While I've only been on Snapzu for a little while now, it's my favorite alternative that I've tried. I really like the layout and interface, and everyone here seems to be really awesome. The smaller userbase is also really encouraging to me, as well.
That said...I have definitely been missing some of the smaller communities I was a part of at reddit. Everything I've searched for so far does have a 'tribe', but most of the areas are completely blank. That's kind of concerning to me.
We'll see how things shake out, though. I definitely want to love snapzu. It looks great, so far!
Well, if a community you want is empty, that's a golden opportunity to start posting content there to get them started.
It's kind of a Catch-22. Everyone loves these smaller niche communities, but when they find them they're empty so they move on. It takes a couple of people to step in and start posting and engaging like crazy so that the next person that comes by looking for their niche sees that it's active and decides to stay and contribute.
That's exactly what I took from it, as well. I figure that in smaller communities, there's that much more of a responsibility on each person to create the kind of community that they want to be a part of. I think that's fair. It just might be the kind of challenge that is both fun and rewarding. Thanks for the thoughts.
Yep, I've never moderated anything (on reddit) before, but I've decided to pitch in some time and try to get a few of the niche communities started up. I may be posting stuff into a space no one but myself visits for a long while, but hopefully someday when someone does show up they'll stick around.