Shaping the Future of Vaporents: Domain Name Feedback Survey - Ends 7/21/23 - 1PM EST
A couple folks have seen this prior to the physical migration of the servers over to a local colocation data center with Cera.net. However, we only had ~20-30 subscribers at that point and received 8 responses (1-2 of them were me testing). Now we’ve got a couple more folks follwing the community from other servers, and the link here has been put back up on Reddit; so I’ve re-opened the survey for it’s “actual” 7 day run.
Note: ChatGPT did the most of the typing after I dictated some goals to it with the phone app speech-to-text. If it sounds like a robot, it half-is and I didn’t take much time to soften the text while building the survey logic.
We invite you to participate in this important survey to help shape the future of the Vaporents community. Your feedback is crucial as we build another platform away from Reddit to establish a new home that better serves our needs. By providing your input, you will have a direct impact on decisions regarding the domain name for the new platform. We value your opinion and appreciate your time in providing your feedback.
Dear /r/Vaporents Community,
We are reaching out to you, the 220,000+ subscribers of the Vaporents subreddit, to gather your valuable feedback regarding an important decision for our community. As you know, we are considering transitioning away from Reddit to establish a new home that provides us with a fresh identity and various advantages. One of the primary reasons behind this transition is to create a legal buffer that ensures our community can operate freely. By changing our domain name and platform, we can separate ourselves from any potential legal concerns associated with Reddit, granting us greater autonomy and peace of mind. Furthermore, the move to a new platform will allow us to create a community completely separate from Reddit, enabling our makers, vendors, and users to post links, share pictures, and freely discuss products without constraints in a closed environment. This freedom from censorship will ensure our community can thrive and openly engage in discussions without worrying about their links being removed or their voices being silenced. Moreover, the over-censorship of product links and discussions on Reddit has significantly impacted the visibility and reach of merchants, retailers, and makers within our community impacting their own site traffic and ability to continue operating in this space. By transitioning to a new and open platform, we can reduce these limitations, allowing merchants to regain their footprint and visibility within Google search results. This change is vital in supporting our community’s merchants and ensuring a vibrant marketplace for everyone. Additionally, transitioning away from Reddit will help us direct and prevent any additional traffic or ad revenue from flowing to the Reddit platform. This ensures that our community’s activities and interactions are no longer contributing to their revenue streams. It is of utmost importance that we continue to openly discuss these products, where to purchase them, raise potential health conserns, and share our experiences without restrictions. By doing so, we can feed this information into search results, enabling individuals new to this space or seeking alternatives to combustion to find the information they need to make informed choices. Your feedback in this survey will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our community. We appreciate your participation and value your insights as we embark on this exciting transition to a new platform.
Thank you for being a part of Vaporents, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Shaping the Future of Vaporents: Domain Name Feedback Survey - Ends 7/21/23 - 1PM EST
Sincerely,
Here’s my opinion. Obviously we want this to be the home to vaporents. But we also want the other herb communities to settle here, so we want something more inclusive than just vape sounding. I dunno https://blow.cloud would be perfect. Something like that!
I mean, ‘beyond combustion’ could be taken as inclusive (Combustion, and Beyond!) But good point.
TBH, I don’t see why it couldn’t/shouldn’t. Tonssss of people do both!
Well quite! Myself included. Plus it allows for the next tech, whatever that may be Virtual bongs with direct neuro-AR stimulation… or we
Exactly. I think where we at now is good and no need to change anything, just keep building and spreading from now on. Anyway, filled. Cheers
It’s a lot of work and cost to shift domains, and this one has been showing on google history up with Vaporents on some searches so that’s added “history” this domain has as well.
There’s pros and cons to each, biggest con being what switching means for me time and $ wise. if folks think it’ll help the community long term though, we’lll fuckin do it. This subdomain for Lemmy stays regardless, changing domains there is not possible after federation. A second instance would have to be setup if Lemmy moves
So I don’t think we should even discuss it tbh, it should just stay this way
Agreed. BeyondCombustion was where the wiki was hosted even prior to The Fall Of Reddit, so there’s a bunch of search history there, too.
Love how PHJ is just like let’s fucking goooo if the community wills it tho, mad props to your commitment dude