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Request a Feddit.uk community

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If you see a need for a community on Feddit.uk then the best advice is to start it. If you need help, then post a message requesting volunteers to pitch in on the moderating. Don't worry too much though there's plenty of people around who can advise the important thing is to get the ball rolling.

However, if you think Feddit.uk needs a community but you aren't in a position to help it get started then this is the community for you. Start a new post with the idea and then, when someone starts it they can throw a link in.

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We have a smattering when the enthusiastic have started them but it's patchy.

Naming conventions: use your best judgement but go with what makes it easiest for people to find - if there's more than one name go with the English for now and you can save the, for example, Welsh one for a Welsh-language community.

edit: as discussed in the comments, you may be better off with a more regional community first - those like London, Manchester and Liverpool already function like that as they cover the greater city area. So instead of Chelmsford and Southend, start one Essex; instead of Lancaster, start one for Lancashire. At least initially until things really get going here. That list is over here.

The list:

  • Aberdeen
  • Armagh
  • Bangor, Northern Ireland
  • Bangor, Wales
  • Bath
  • Belfast
  • Birmingham
  • Bradford
  • Brighton and Hove
  • Bristol
  • Cambridge
  • Canterbury
  • Cardiff
  • Carlisle
  • Chelmsford
  • Chester
  • Chichester
  • Colchester
  • Coventry
  • Derby
  • Derry
  • Doncaster
  • Dundee
  • Durham
  • Edinburgh
  • Ely
  • Exeter
  • Glasgow
  • Gloucester
  • Hereford
  • Inverness
  • Kingston upon Hull
  • Lancaster
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • Lichfield
  • Lincoln
  • Lisburn
  • Liverpool
  • London (technically City of London is one too but let's not split hairs at this point)
  • Manchester
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Newport
  • Newry
  • Norwich
  • Nottingham
  • Oxford
  • Perth
  • Peterborough
  • Plymouth
  • Portsmouth
  • Preston
  • Ripon
  • Salford
  • Salisbury
  • Sheffield
  • Southampton
  • Southend on Sea
  • St Albans
  • St Asaph
  • St Davids
  • Stirling
  • Stoke-on-Trent
  • Sunderland
  • Swansea
  • Truro
  • Wakefield
  • Wells
  • ~~Westminster~~ - stick to London for now
  • Winchester
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester
  • Wrexham
  • York

edit: adding in links to existing ones

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[–] lypticdna 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Emperor@feddit.uk just did a quick crawl and we have a few more to add:

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for letting me know. I've added the first two to the list but Blackpool is a town.

[–] lypticdna 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha... Well almost hit the back of the net 😆. Cheers

[–] Emperor 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unless we consider the Tower as a cathedral for light entertainment (I have Peter Kay live from their in VHS and am open to this line of thinking)...

[–] lypticdna 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YES! Peter Kay live from Blackpool. That can only have been the 'Top of The Tower' one. I remember seeing it years ago but was on Dave a year or so back. Hilarious!

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 year ago

That propelled him to The Big Time. So many people saw it eventually (it was on Channel 4 quite a bit of you hadn't already got the home video release). I was in the vegetable aisle of a supermarket and a man turned to his wife and said "garlic?" and a voice from the next aisle shouted "bread?" Everyone killed themselves laughing.

[–] Tweak 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

/c/norwich@feddit.uk

And there's a fair few more that have been created but are missing from the list.

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for that, I'll update the list.

And, yes, I suspect there are others I'm not seeing h the list at Feddit.uk seems to end on the third page when I am sure there are more. If anyone spots any throw them in and I'll add them.

[–] ckempo 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

!birmingham@feddit.uk exists - even titled as Brum for the Reddit exiles.

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for that, it isn't even showing up in the searches - I had to hack the URL to get there.

[–] case_when 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also !oxford@feddit.uk

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cheers. Unfortunately, I'm getting a "couldn't find community" error here:

https://feddit.uk/c/oxford

I'll check back in a bit - might take time for changes to percolate through.

[–] case_when 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My mistake: it's !oxford@lemm.ee

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

No worries.

[–] lypticdna 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please add https://feddit.uk/c/leeds for Leeds :-)

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for getting the ball rolling - list updated

[–] mark 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please add https://feddit.uk/c/cov for Coventry.

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

All done. Thanks for starting it.

[–] SonyJunkie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, I have created a community for Cambridge

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

Cheers. All done.

[–] tkc 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just add, there might be some that could be covered by Counties rather than Towns, i.e, being from Essex originally myself, I can see Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea being covered by a single Essex community.

Entirely up to the the creators of these Communities of course!

[–] GreatAlbatross 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was going to say the same: If you're not sure, start with a county, and make towns/cities as needed.

Cornwall for example: On the old site had 35k users, Falmouth had 600, and Truro didn't seem to exist!

Edit: Possibly ever regions and nations for the less populated bits might work!

[–] Emperor 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's why I took the executive decision to strike out Westminster and suggest c/london can cover it and the City of London.

As you say, counties might function best in some circumstances and then cities (and towns if someone is feeling enthusiastic) can spin off from.that - we have communities for Yorkshire and Cornwall already. I might suggest that we are better off with a Lancashire community before a Lancaster one. City regions are doing similar work - Manchester is covering all of Greater Manchester at the moment, although Chorlton-cum-Hardy are always prone to a breakaway. Liverpool could cover the LCR/Merseyside but I suspect those over the water might prefer going with The Wirral and Southport just want to be part of Lancashire.

So people should use their best judgement - a wider regional community can work better in some places (I may tag the regions on here or possibly look into a separate thread here). Better a lively community with a wide scope than a dead specialist one. That said we already have some town ones, like Margate and Reading, so we just go with the flow - enthusiastic moderators can make a community.

And we'll probably get Chorlton and Southport communities before we get a St Asaph one but I imagine someone is itching to prove me wrong.

[–] Mex 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not a city but there is also !kent@feddit.uk

[–] Mex 1 points 1 year ago

Ah I see there is also a thread for regions, have added a comment there too.