Re: Our community seems to have grown, so many people are joining the Facebook group

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 13:04:42 UTC, Tobias Pankrath 
wrote:
You have a valid point, but still I am sure the facebook group 
is a net positive for the community. I'd see it as a digital 
version of a local user group.

It certainly has some benefits, especially in the past when there 
was more activity and hostility in the dlang forums which could 
alienate some users. So, yes, if it is local and friendly, and 
people in the group direct members to the learn forum when they 
have questions that go unanswered then it can be helpful. Many 
islands is a net negative though. There has to be some kind of 
networking between the communities.

Also, topical communities can be negative, in the sense that if 
you have one 3D group, one audio group, one algorithm group then 
a user trying to implement a game might miss out on the best 
advice. That is a good reason to have one big community that has 
"rooms" (forums) for each topic.