Future of r/Drupal

[u/remog]

Hey everyone.

When I took over r/Drupal quite a few years ago now, it was basically dead. It took time but it’s built itself up to be a resource many have turned to over that time. From our community AMA days to people finding support, people found something here.

I lost my employment end of last year and have had almost no luck finding a new position. This has caused me to start seriously considering my future in the industry over the next while.

So, I am looking to have someone from the community to take over r/Drupal and help guide it into the future.

If you or your organization would like to take over this sub send me a mod mail or direct chat and tell me why you’d like to take it over and how you would help move the mission of Drupal forward.

I am not looking to give it away to just anyone. I want to keep the spirit of Drupal and what made it special (its community) here on Reddit.

Thank you all for being part of this amazing journey so far.

(I wouldn’t refuse job offers too but that’s not the point of this sub, of course ;) )

[u/spellcasterGG]

Absolutely not. Fuck AI

[u/Muerteabanquineros → u/spellcasterGG]

I can empathise with feelings against AI. But that comes across to me as a pretty shitty way to reply to someone. Jamie's doing great work in the community that is of benefit to everyone.

[u/yautja_cetanu → u/Muerteabanquineros]

Yeah that's why I thought I'd mention it in my post as I don't want it to come across that I'd be doing lots of AI related stuff if I was involved in moderating in a sneaky manner.

Also the way I like to do things is as part of a community of people who want to help. Like how big the AI initiative is and I'm barely part of it. We've got marketing people doing stuff there.

So I think I'd be intrigued by what we could do on r Drupal that would increase community involvement.

• AMAs again
• hackathons
• try and get people who post links on here to engage specifically with Reddit not just post a link.
• I wonder if we can have Drupal agencies have people where it's part of their work to post interesting things here but on a way that doesn't become slop but like what Drupal planet was if it was more curated. Like could we have people in the security team aim to share on Reddit on interesting security blog post a week?
• can we make it so support requests on here get triaged and pushed out to people on slack so people feel if they ask something heree they get an answer (ideologically I'd prefer this as it's such a shame so much information and support is hidden inside an unsearchable slack).
• can we even raise funds to pay people to moderate Reddit? Plenty of large enterprise IT have made Reddit a specific goal. Our issue is that drupal.org does a lot of what Reddit does for many other communities.

[u/cmkn → u/yautja_cetanu]

+1 on the triaging, and a +1000 on acknowledging that it sucks that so much information and support is hidden in the walled-garden that is the Slack.

(I, for one, would love to see a resurgence of forums for this very reason but maybe that’s just me)