The new silo does not feel good

Hungerburg · 2022-10-13T18:29:18.994Z

Can this be made, so the subcategory is more prominently shown in topics or lists of topics? The Austrian community subcategory is inundated by posts from German community members.

As much as community.openstreetmap.org is about countering silo-ification, there is not much won by silo-consolidation, i.e. one community being absorbed by a ten times bigger and hundred times more talkative one.

Luzandro · 2022-10-14T05:34:50.208Z

I would only see this as problem if they would ignore country specific differences, but I don’t have the impression that someone isn’t aware in which subcategory they are posting

highflyer74 · 2022-10-14T07:17:15.046Z

You can e.g. bookmark a direct link into the category (like so Österreich (Austria) - OpenStreetMap Community) for easy access.

nukeador · 2022-10-14T10:48:23.976Z

Hungerburg:

The Austrian community subcategory is inundated by posts from German community members

It would be useful if can you describe the issues happening more in detail or with an example.

Is there an influx of messages or topics not related with Austria from these people?

woodpeck · 2022-10-14T11:22:11.669Z

Country-specific differences can also exist in the way you interact with each other, or the words you use - not just hard-and-fast tagging rules. I can understand that even if a thing is factually the same in Austria and Germany, the Austrian community would occasionally like to form an opinion among themselves, without being “nudged” by the 100-times-more-talkative giant next door

wolfgang8 · 2022-10-14T11:59:14.261Z

Ja, dieses Bedürfnis gibt es sicherlich. Konstruktive Beiträge von außen können aber auch sehr inspirierend auf eine Gemeinschaft wirken, wenn sie in wohl dosiertem Rahmen bleiben.

Hungerburg · 2022-10-14T14:03:38.886Z

It is not new topics, just follow-ups. Must be the /latest entry point. Actually, subcategory should be visible good enough there.

Hungerburg · 2022-10-14T14:07:16.377Z

Somehow I managed to get e-mail, when a new topic is created there. Looking again: From the bell icon top-right.

ezekielf · 2022-10-14T14:11:51.248Z

One option is setting the Germany category to Muted. I recently did some testing of how muting categories works:

Mute Communities subcategories by default? 🐞 This forum issues and requests

So with this second mention from @stephankn in the Thailand category, I did not get a notification. So it seems that mentioning someone does not set the topic back to normal for them if they have it muted. It’s a little confusing because muting a category and muting a thread don’t seem to behave quite the same way. I have the Deutschland category muted, but the topics created in that category are still set to Normal by default: [deutschland-topic] When I visit the category I can see all th…

It means the posts won’t show up in the main Latest section at the root of the site, but you can still browse the category separately and you’ll still get notifications if somone mentions you or replies to a post you made in the category.