This post will start a discussion, so better read carefully (and comments if any)

Public community vs private community

This community is a private one, which means that if you want to see the posts you need to ‘ask’ permission to enter (even thought we (almost) always accept anybody who ask). This is something that some people don’t like to do, even I spend time deciding to ask or not.

I’m writing this with the idea to make a public LL community, (a new one, because Google don’t let you change the privacy after creating it) but of course this will need a process, and it has pros and cons.

[And of course Pierre Hébert’s agreement! ]

The process theoretically is simple: stop posting in this community and post instead in the new one. If someone wants to see the old posts they will need to enter here, but the sooner we do the change, the less this will happen, as more post will be in the new one.

This is the list of pros/cons I think it has, you can comment others too.

Pros:

More visits: as a public community everybody will be able to see the posts, what means that more people will be able to know this (and also they will be available in Google search)

Cons:

Spam/unwanted people: this is the bad part of being a public community. I hardly remember any spam post here, and I guess it’s because if you decide to ask permission to enter, someone will need to accept you and bots don’t normally enter private communities. But I don’t know the level of spam in others so I can’t compare.

Also remember that this way your posts will be publicly available in your profile page. (Which could be good or bad)

Intermediate solutions:

Create the new community and post there some posts to see how it behaves (keeping important ones here)

Keep this one for betas/discussions and use the other for ‘share your screen’, ‘finished scripts’…

I remember at least one post talking about this topic, but nothing came at the end, so I want to start it again…to see what will happen.

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