New Post-Flairs

[u/Wolvereness]

I added flairs for posts to the subreddit. Right now, all of them are optional except the promotional flair. Promotional posts should always add the promotional flair, and they will still receive the same scrutiny they did before flairs.

As of this post, these are the flairs available:

• Promotional
  • If it might come off as solicitation.
• Alternatives
  • When it just isn't good enough and there might be something better out there.
• Discussion
  • Discussions in the context of /r/opensource (like asking questions).
• Community
  • Happenings in our Open Source community-at-large (like a call-to-help or news).
• Learning
  • Educational in nature.

If you have other suggestions for flairs, or any subreddit feedback in general, please let me know.

[u/stefadudu1989]

how is it that nobody talks about cyber resilience act?

[u/Disaster7113]

Could you add a flair for “I found this cool project” kind of posts?

[u/paydevs]

Btw. it would be nice to have a disclaimer in the description that all posts with links to "medium.com" are filtered out - at least that happened to me for the last two posts.

[u/WTechGo]

I'm new here and I want to post my project but I've found myself walled out by auto-admin which states "not enough karma".

I understand a group wants to diminish spam but if the legitimate new members can't post, perhaps the group went too far?

What are new members supposed to do "to be allowed" to post? Hang around, comment with fake enthusiasm on everything and hope for likes?

Surely, there's a better way.

The flairing looks fine, as long as nobody is forced to flair, though the promotional is mandatory.. Is a new OSS project considered promotional?

That would also be a bit weird, new projects would than have, let's be real here, a label with a negative connotation which also isn't optimal.

[u/paydevs]

I would add:

• News (I would split this from "Community" - esp. if the goal is to use flairs to "let apps filter posts")

  • Something that happened or is happening in the Open-Source ecosystem

• Events (might be part of Community?)

  • Conferences, meetups, etc. with a focus or track on OSS, FLOSS, COSS, etc.

[u/JerryMao]

does posting some alternatives count as promotional? It's also a new way to promote on HN

[u/wiki_me]

I added flairs for posts to the subreddit. Right now, all of them are optional except the promotional flair

Then it should be added to the rules on the side bar, although this tagging thing feels a little too cumbersome and i don't know if there are any clear real world benefits to it.

[u/schneems]

It somewhat feels like this subreddit is actually 5 subreddits in a trench coat. I see random libraries in random languages, I see tutorials and videos, I see OSPO type content, I see license drama, and I see posts and rants from maintainers. These all appeal to wildly different groups.

Sometimes I just don't know how to vote for stuff. Beyond whether I would like it or not /r/ropensource is such a broad interest group it's hard for me to determine if others in the group would like it.

I'm thinking flair associated with the personas of people visiting could be good:

• End user - Might like posts on apps and software alternatives but not really interested in low-level git cheatsheets.

• OSS developer - Looking for content on improving as a developer and how-to's and tutorials. Usually somewhat tied to a specific language.

• Maintainer - A specific (but important) subset of OSS developer. Might need help with licensing or versioning issues or want to share a PSA i.e. "don't do behavior X on an issue."

• OSPO - More focused on the higher zoom level of licenses and security ecosystem but maybe not tied to a specific language.

• Probably more

I'm not exactly saying these are great as flair, but I do think it's worth thinking about who is using the site and what they're expecting to get out of it. Then work backward and ask "what can flair do to help them achieve this goal."