I’m wondering if it makes sense to have /c/csharp and /c/dotnet both be active? There are very few users here so far, so maybe uniting everyone in dotnet would be better? Just a thought.
I think we should unite into single /c/dotnet community for now until we grow bigger. After that we can start moving more niche parts to separate communities: c#, asp.net, f#, desktop
I believe that uniting everyone under c/dotnet community, as you suggested, could be a beneficial approach.
It might be worth considering whether a potential c/fsharp (if it were to exist) should also merge with c/dotnet. Regarding F# developers who have a specific interest in .NET but not necessarily in C#; c/dotnet platform is already focused on C# (for example ASP.NET Core appears on c/dotnet and r/dotnet way more often than Giraffe or Saturn)
I’m not taking VB.NET in to account because almost no one uses this.
Edit: programming.dev/c/fsharp don’t exists yet, so we have a chance to unite under c/dotnet if we decide to not have separate F# community.
Edit2: when I used reddit, I posted all C#/.NET content to both communities anyway, we have a chance to fix it now.
Right now obviously the content feed and the users contributing are low enough so they could be merged effectively.
In case the Fediverse and this instance grow rapidly though, I think that 2 communities would be more beneficial: having a more active community about C#, with questions about the language, its syntax, each new feature introduced etc, while the .NET community would undoubtly see less content and focus more on the underlying framework, the toolchain, language-agnostic discussions… In my experience, this is how it worked on the subreddits of the same names.
Do you want to have a banner added on the sidebar, redirecting to /c/dotnet until we grow larger? Does Lemmy have a polling functionality (to ask the user opinions)? I couldn’t find anything.
the closest thing that can be a poll in lemmy currently is having a comment that people upvote or downvote or two+ comments that people upvote
Do you want to have a banner added on the sidebar, redirecting to /c/dotnet until we grow larger?
IIRC most people don’t read sidebars, does lemmy have pinned posts?
And I agree, with enough users and activity, the split makes sense. But that might be some way off.
does lemmy have pinned posts?
Yes, we can add one if needed. I created a poll in this thread: https://programming.dev/post/71137
Btw, I just found out how to add a user as mod to a community, there is a button between each post / comment that is visible to moderators of that community. So, if you post to /c/dotnet, I can make you a mod there.
Only if the other is cblunt.
My upvote is a downvote in spirit
Well, once upon a time- c# and dotnet were seperate things.
Suppose, they still are separate- BUT, the dividing line is much thinner now.
Well .net still has several languages (even created by microsoft) VB.NET ( less pupular than vb6 was, but still refuses to die inspite of microsofts rather loud signaling that they wish it to) and F#. So yes having c# and .net as separate communities still makes sence IMHO, but I might be wrong
Edit: And i forgot another pont in favor of keeping csharp and dotnet separate, because uf the blackout of r/csharp and the mods hepull linking to this community we are going to see quite a few people coming over here looking for a drop in replacement and they are used to a dedicated csharp community. it would be easier to retrain their musse memmory if they get “the same content at a different url” so to speak rather than a mixed community for all dotnet.
