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When someone is venting, am I supposed to say something?

I've had this happen quite a few times to me, and I've come to the best question for this.

"Do you want to just vent or would you like advice?"

Some people just need to get it off their chest and talk to something, IT professionals call this The Rubber Duck Effect, helps them work through the problem by explaining it to someone else. Asking if they'd like advice or just vent lets you know what kinds of questions to ask. You do still need to be listening but hopefully this helps!

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Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore

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As long as the masses don't all flock to just one server, the next time reddit fucks up it'll be a much softer place to land. The only problem is the niche communities and they're survivability when transferring over.

This really does feel like the early days of reddit. Where small, niche communities have to just keep plugging along until they hit a self-sustaining number of active users, and I didn't realize how much I missed that till I came here.

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HFY - Humanity Fuck Yeah! (Information about the community and rules)

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You'll have to ask them yourself. We're not looking to spam the subreddit with ads for this place though, just be a potential landing site for if Reddit crumbles and authors are looking for a centralized home to post to.

Or, write your own! Best part about being part of something new like this is you can add your own stories and have them almost guaranteed to be read.

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Honestly, if we can somehow make a bot for that and have it working early, I don't see why we couldn't. Make it a poll that closes after 24/48 hours that then autosorts them into the genre in a wiki of some variety.

I'm all for it, but I'm not even remotely proficient at that stuff though so someone smarter than I would need to figure out that problem.

Edit: just remembered I was part of the mod team at that time. We were talking about 10s of thousands of posts, a lot of which were archived, that we would need to go back through and we didn't have the manpower for something like that. If we do it from the get go it should work fairly well.