On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 11:34:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Not quite, if you split up then each community might have
stronger social bonding, but in terms of aggregating helpful
advice you will be worse off. It would be suitable for
geographic groups (e.g. for a country/city).
For instance slashdot is very poor in social boding terms, but
much better than the dlang forums for aggregating helpful
advice. So the "learn" forum is beneficial socially, but does
erode the slashdot presence.
Sorry but I don't think you get it.
These people are on Facebook, and it seems they would rather hear
about D on Facebook. That's all there is to it.
You don't choose the platform that people prefer for hanging out.
And not everyone want to have a strong affiliation with the
langage and come to this forum. As the community grows, we of
course need those loose links a lot, like any other computing
language.
