This post is for bouncing around thinking and ideas around future plans for monyet.cc!

Where we are now

As of 25 June, we have achieved a minimum bar for success vs. our goals on this post.

• We have proven that our community can defintely set up shop here. Hundreds of people have switched over very smoothly: posters, readers, regulars, everyone.
• What this means: We have built the boats. If reddit dies, either suddenly or gradually over years, we won’t lose the community we’ve created together.
• Before reddit there were lots of cosy forums across the internet. In the worst case, we can be one of them.
• A huge thank-you to everyone who has created an account and taken part in this experiment. Especially those of you who have been helping to make this place lively and fun ❤️

The next challenge

r/Malaysia comes back online tomorrow. Can we keep this place alive and healthy, and build it into something that can thrive independently of Reddit Inc.?

• This seems much smarter than just declaring success and putting the site in hibernation.
• monyet.cc could be a sister community like our Discord and r/malaysians, except not be 100% dependent on Reddit for new users!
• We know it can be done, because lowyat.net does it: they have literally millions of users.

What helps our chances: This week we’ve confirmed that this platform can serve the community in many ways that reddit can’t. Because we now have “subreddits”:

• Local language communities, like 中文嘛嘛档 and Berita
• Local interest communities, like AMG, Pets, Meme Everyday. Food hunting, meetup groups, relationship advice, students, bargain hunting, etc.
• Local classifieds! Job boards, buying and selling, dating / personal ads, promoting local artists, newtubers, businesses, etc.

Big questions

1. Direction: What do people think about this direction? This is still very young thinking.

2. Growth: Having all of this good stuff depends on us convincing lots of users to regularly use monyet.cc. Any thoughts on how to do this?

• Our current best idea is that instead of competing with the types of content on r/my, we could try to be a complement: focus on stuff we can’t offer there.
• For example, we remove a lot of classifieds, newtubers, etc. We could start redirecting all this here.
• What kinds of content might people enjoy coming here regularly for?

Thanks again everyone!!