This is just a random thought but I was wondering if recursive communities would be useful?
What I mean is this: say you have a community for car stuff: /c/cars
And you want to have a community for Asian import cars versus another community for offroading. You could make /c/offroading and /c/importscars but you could also hypothetically organize it with /c/cars/offroading and /c/cars/importcars
I don’t know if this would actually be worth doing at all. It’s just something I’ve thought about for years with reddit. It’s also I think kind of how usenet worked?
Something like that could be useful for organisation with a large amount of data. Sidebar would be useful. Any way to group communities to drive discovery.
A cars specific instance would be my go to option in this scenario though.
A cars specific instance would be my go to option in this scenario though.
This only offers one level of depth though. What if you want c/cars/imports/asia and c/cars/imports/europe for example?
There’s also some additional challenges that a recursive community style like this might bring, namely how moderations would stack.
Also overly deep hierarchies is generally considered an anti-pattern. Flat hierarchy for websites helps keep things visible. So I’m not totally sold on this idea, it’s just a thing I’ve thought about.
