@Macronald 29 January 2021 more from that month

The Communities and You

**When was the last time you visited one of the communities on here?** Not just visiting the ones you created just because you got a notification to moderate a post submitted to a community you manage, but because you want to check out the posts submitted to a community. The read.cash communities have for long become somewhat of an article dump ground for most users - where we just submit articles with very few users ever visiting these communities to check out what's new. Now with the introduction of "Topics", the communities have become less significant. I believe we all know what read.cash communities are, for those who don't know especially the newbies - Communities are sub-groups within read.cash dedicated to a particular topic or idea where you can submit or post articles related to the communities' topic and *discuss*. You can join if you like the topic(s) covered by the community. You can also leave at any time. When was the last time I visited a community to read and react to articles submitted within? To be honest, it's been more than a month. And the last time I visited was because I got a notification of submitted posts that needed moderation. After that, I have never visited any till date. But within the same period, I have submitted a couple of articles to some communities which were accepted. This may be true for most but not all users. I believe some users are actively involved in the communities they have joined. When writing I visited the "Communities" page to check out the trending communities for the day. The top five were moderated by either @wakeupkitty and @heartbeat1515 or @Our.journey I could say they are the most active community users (if that's a thing). When I joined read.cash 6 months ago, I was eager to try out the "Communities" feature. I visited and joined as many communities as possible that covers topics I was interested in. I also created a couple of communities, especially on topics I could find a community for. I was very active and enjoyed the moderation role. I also created a community I used for a little competition for newbies. Where I reward newbies of not more than 2 weeks on the platform for reading and engaging on posts. That was my most active community. I ended the contest when I could not keep up with the stress, and that was the end of the community. I also created some communities I thought would be useful at the time, but we're left inactive. And I have abandoned some. I wanted to delete them but there was no option for that. You can only exit the community, but not delete. You can correct me if I am wrong. Why I talked about communities suddenly? I don't even know why. Oh! Now I remember. One of the users I referred to read.cash asked me earlier today; "Ronald, what's the benefit and significance of the "Communities" on read.cash" Me: "They are subgroups where you can submit your posts related to the topics of the community" He: "I thought that's what "Topics" are for? With topics, the communities are useless" Well, I couldn't explain further. Wish I had more to say. Though Communities and Topics may seem the same, they are different. I wish there is more to the communities on read.cash.