DW Communities I Wish Existed

[soc_puppet]

With the knowledge that I don't really have the capacity to manage and maintain another community:

- Mood Theme in a Year: Basically makes weekly posts with two or three of Dreamwidth's moods as a prompt, and participants come up with images to match those moods. Drawing, screencapping, typing, whatever. The goal is that, at the end of the year, participants will have created a custom mood theme with images for every mood.

- Mood Theme in a Hurry: Same as above, but in a shorter time frame. A month or a season would probably be good for this, especially for anyone who wants to, hmm. Collate? various moods into single images. (Like, come up with twenty images, all listed moods have to correlate to one of those images.)

- The Shitpost Office: Just a general community for making and sharing shitposts with a wider audience.

- kittens_and_spitefic: ...Okay, this one does exist, I just haven't done anything with it in a few months. I lost steam 😞 I remembering saying that I'd consider the community a success if I got at least one other poster every month, and that didn't really happen. I'm tempted to ask if people would be more motivated to post if I made all posts public by default (with users opting to community-lock posts at their own discretion), but at the same time I'm. Not really sure I'd be up for trying to jump-start the community and see it dwindle to nothing again. Maybe if Dreamwidth in general gets a huge surge of new users/activity and/or when Tumblr finally bites the dust...

Comments

[krait]

I know that feeling; there are so many more community ideas in my head than there is willpower to create and drive them.

Multifandom comms are especially hard, I think, because it takes an order of magnitude more members to generate the interest overlap that leads to interactions. A comm focused on a single fandom with 20-30 members will probably get a decent level of interaction, because everyone is de facto interested in the subject of each post; if 5 of them respond to any given topic, that's enough to keep the ball rolling. By contrast, a multifandom comm with 30 members might only have 1-2 people interested in each of 25 fandoms; there's a much smaller audience for any particular post, and could be insufficient to keep people posting.

I hope that you won't be completely discouraged, even if you're not up to making a big push. The handy thing about communities is that they can just hang around quietly until someone feels inspired or has the time to devote to boosting them. There's hope!

[soc_puppet]

The monthly public posts I made generally had at least one response (honestly, usually more for the SFW/SFW-welcome ones than the NSFW ones), so it definitely wasn't a total failure! But I can definitely see where you're coming from with the multifandom problem, and I'm pretty sure that my decision to have all non-mod entries default to community-locked wouldn't have helped with that. IDK, maybe if I combine unlocking with vriddy's suggestion of squishing it down to a shorter time frame instead of keeping it year-round, I'll be able to get more traction out of the community? Honestly, I could even make it a pretty close copy of how I've got summerofthe69 set up, since I think that one went pretty well...

Probably not something I'll get around to tonight, though 😂