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[Suggestion] Tree-nested communities. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Amicchan@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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A common pattern of subreddit nomenclature on Reddit is the anarchy of naming subtopics (like Game memes, political memes).

e.g There are multiple subreddits for TF2: r/tf2 and r/truetf2; however this is confusing. These

I think there should be tree-style communities; it probably won't stick though.

Examples:

!tf2/memes
!communism/memes
!vexillology/help
!vexillography/memes
!linux/memes
!videos/meta

(I wouldn't use backslashes; since they are used in URLs.)

(I don't see much reason to agree with this suggestion; but some other people might be able to agree with it.)

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[–] alexlehm@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

reminds me of the naming convention of usenet, rec.arts.tv.starttrek.tos

[–] Amicchan@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Usenet used that naming convention? I am now liking Usenet (not newsnet lmao).

[–] xarvos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

that sounds like a forum to me, with topics and subtopics hierarchy. discourse is like that isn't it?

[–] alexlehm@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

actually / would be ok for urls, backslash would work as well, but it would require quoting in the url with %5c. Any other character could work as well like . or -