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What criteria are used to determine to launch a new community?
Codidact currently has several communities (with varying levels of activity), and several more proposals for new communities. There seems to be an effort in many of these proposals to collect users to ensure that there's enough interest before launching a new site. This makes sense, because an empty site without participants (especially expert answerers) isn't particularly helpful to anyone.
But how much interest is "enough" interest? Are there some objective (or even subjective) criteria that need to be met in terms of number of "signed-up" users, number of moderators, how many upvotes the proposal gets, or scope definition completeness before a site is launched?
Or in short, what's the process from proposal to actual launch look like in terms of how the decision to launch gets made?
I'm speaking only for myself here. Unfortunately, we're still kind of winging this, and learning as we go. We now re …
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It seems that two things are required for a new site to be successful: A core group of domain experts that commit to …
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I think this answer by @laserkittens to a community proposal is very interesting. It does not just keep track over how m …
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