Our community seems to have grown, so many people are joining the Facebook group

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Tuesday, 29 December 2020 at 11:34:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> Not quite, if you split up then each community might have 
> stronger social bonding, but in terms of aggregating helpful 
> advice you will be worse off. It would be suitable for 
> geographic groups (e.g. for a country/city).
>
> For instance slashdot is very poor in social boding terms, but 
> much better than the dlang forums for aggregating helpful 
> advice. So the "learn" forum is beneficial socially, but does 
> erode the slashdot presence.

You have a valid point, but still I am sure the facebook group is 
a net positive for the community. I'd see it as a digital version 
of a local user group.

Would be useful to have the option to post D.learn questions 
automatically on stack overflow as well.