An open letter to the /r/Flutter modteam about merging with /r/FlutterDev
Hey,
I'm here on behalf of r/FlutterDev, hoping to get your attention since you've never replied to any of our PMs, modmails, or reports.
Having two subreddits for identical purposes just splits this already tiny community further. Here's a quick comparison of both subreddit's advantages:
- Was established first.
- Has 4.5x more members.
- Has Google connections.
- Has an active mod team.
- Is an official community.
- Is partnered with the Flutter discord.
- Is growing faster.
- Has more people stumble onto it if they search for "Flutter" on Reddit.
- ???
We're proposing we merge these 2 communities. You can both join r/FlutterDev and the Discord as moderators, and help us provide an environment for Flutter discussion.
We would redditrequest this sub, but as u/aQutie is active on his other moderated sub r/Angular2 (and nowhere else...), it won't pass.
New posts to this subreddit would be prevented, but all existing content would remain, along with a link in the sidebar / description to the main subreddit. Can the r/Flutter mods please send us a modmail as soon as possible, or PM me!
History:
- r/Flutter & r/FlutterDev were created a long time ago (before the framework), made private, and forgotten about.
- u/KingBaal redditrequested r/Flutter unsuccessfully, so instead redditrequested r/FlutterDev a year ago, and with the help of the other mods it became a bustling community. We also opened a Discord that has grown to 2k+ members.
- Both r/FlutterDev and our Discord became official, listed as communities on Flutter.io.
- r/Flutter was reopened 7 months ago by u/zirconiX9, who made a page of posts in a few days to kickstart the community, then added u/aQutie and disappeared.
- An announcement post was made, where the only comments are asking why the subreddit exists.
- The previous post was deleted, and made again, with the same questions being asked.
- The new moderator also disappeared from the subreddit, and seemingly hasn't touched it since. Spam is never removed.
Tl;dr: r/FlutterDev is much more active and far larger. Having 2 communities is pointless, we'd like to merge.
Posted Dec 23, 2018, 5:22 PM UTC
Merge it.