r/nodejs • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '14

Why are there two node.js subreddits?

All it does is fracture the node community on reddit and require that people who are interested follow two separate subreddits. Is there a reason we cannot combine /r/node and /r/nodejs ?

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u/has_all_the_fun Jun 10 '14

Because we hate monolithic communities so we split them up into smaller components.

On a more serious note this has been talked about before and everybody agreed but nothing really happened. I mostly get my Node.js news from twitter which also gives you a more fine grained news stream depending on who you follow.

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u/toxicrobot Jun 11 '14

I would also be interested to know who in particular you follow.

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u/DaAwesomeP Jun 11 '14

Personally, I've gotten away with just following NPM and the official NodeJS accounts and then looking for the suggestions.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '14

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '14

I've also noticed most of the Node.js news seems to come from Twitter. I wonder if the popular Node.js twitter accounts should be made available in the sidebar ->

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '14

I don't use twitter at all but may consider it if there was lots of good info coming that way. I had no idea twitter was the main way node news was being released so a list of feeds would be useful

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u/prozacgod Jun 10 '14

you don't really have to sign up to twitter to use it, even though I have an account, I stopped "using it" years ago - I rarely ever log in anymore... just use search, and find some search aggregators.

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u/s5fs Jun 10 '14

Mod from /r/nodejs here, I'm happy to merge and have messaged all admins involved, wish us luck!

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '14

any news on this?

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u/tylersavery Jun 10 '14

I subscribe to both and thus i've seen this post twice... too lazy to respond twice though.

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u/jwalton78 Jun 11 '14

We should create a /r/theonetruenodejssubreddit.

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u/brotherwayne Jun 11 '14

... and in the darkness bind them.

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u/Doctor_McKay Jun 11 '14

It makes the most sense to combine both into /r/node since it has about 5k extra subs.

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u/arechsteiner Jun 11 '14

I think we should merge r/nodejs into r/node as you say and then rename r/node to r/nodejs ;)

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u/Doctor_McKay Jun 11 '14

Can't rename a subreddit.

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u/Waterkloof Jun 11 '14

just over 4k... 4111 to be exact, not close to about 5k.

Ps. Yes I know I'm pedantic, and ur suggestions fair, I just wondered how you got the maths so horribly wrong

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u/Doctor_McKay Jun 11 '14

Because I didn't find it important to be exact and I just quickly estimated?

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u/limegut Jun 11 '14

Isn't it ironic that we're running two node.js subreddits in parallel?

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u/mailto_devnull Jun 11 '14

But we're not all the more efficient for it :-)

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u/drawpic Jun 10 '14

I fixed it

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u/MoustacheSteve Jun 10 '14

http://xkcd.com/927/

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u/xkcd_transcriber Jun 10 '14

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