I’m okay with this change
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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Why not just point it to moviesandtv instead of dividing the conversation into separate movies and TV communities (it doesn't seem like anyone has requested that delineation), or pointing either one to a community no one's subscribed to?
There are currently 3 and 2 pinned posts on top of !movies@lemm.ee and !showsandmovies@lemm.ee respectively, merging them would have 5 pinned posts permanently on top.
Also, there are at least different posters, and commenters seem different as well. Mod teams are also different, quite a few people are only interested in movies and not shows and vice versa
The pinned posts seem like a solvable problem: just pin fewer posts. Point taken on different mod teams.
I'm not sure a significant number of people are interested in movies and not TV, and I'm not sure how that's known except perhaps by subscriber counts (but maybe there was a poll I missed?). I would start from the assumption that there's significant overlap, but I have no real way of verifying that.
I'm not opposed to the separation of movies and TV in principle. I'm mainly just concerned about how long it would take to rebuild that community.
I’m not sure a significant number of people are interested in movies and not TV
I am. I mostly only watch TV. I definitely know lots of people who only watch movies and only care to follow movie updates and discussions.
I’m not opposed to the separation of movies and TV in principle. I’m mainly just concerned about how long it would take to rebuild that community.
I mean movies isn't going anywhere, and one of the communities here - moviesandtv despite the higher subscriber numbers is kinda dead.
!movies@lemm.ee recently had a thread with 274 comments: https://lemm.ee/post/58142821
So there is definitely a population. It is actually a quite popular community on its own on the whole platform with 2.28K users / week and 3.56K users / month. You can see it on https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active, it's in the top 50, and only being dedicated on movies content.
just pin fewer posts
Those are needed to have both the regular discussion thread and the permanent redirection thread to other relevant communities.
I was talking about !television@lemm.ee, since the proposal is about redirecting to that community.
Rebuilding the community shouldn't take long, as we already have people here. If the content moves and we clearly point to it, people will follow
Hello @UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev,
Would you be able to run the script you used on !football@lemmy.world on this community, so that we can ping everyone who commented here recently?
Sure, do you want me to do it now or on Monday? I think I discarded the script, so I'll need to rewrite it, shouldn't take too long though.
Also, do you only want to ping people, or also lock it down the same way as !football@lemmy.world is?
Great, thanks!
Let's wait Monday so that people can still vote in the meantime.
I think pinging should be enough, we'll lock it ourselves and add a pinned post.
Edit: let's even wait Tuesday to do the pinging, not sure which timezone you're in?
Edit: let's even wait Tuesday to do the pinging, not sure which timezone you're in?
Norway, CET/UTC+1
Ah right, perfect then, we can see logistics on Tuesday. You don't need any specific rights for this, right, you can just ping people here?
Correct
One day is a very short time frame for this imo. Why the rush?
We can keep it open onger if you want. Would 48 hours be okay? Or longer?
Through the weekend until Monday. Just giving casual people a chance to see it.
Sounds good, I'll edit the post
I disagree with this change