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!!

  • Annoyed_🦀 🏅A
    2•1 year ago

    Emm, i haven’t played with the community option at all, but there doesn’t seems to have any wiki option too. What sort of resource thought? I’m pretty sure it can be posted and stickied to the community, and probably a link at the side bar

      • Annoyed_🦀 🏅A
        2•1 year ago

        no no no we don’t link to there, we need people to visit here not otherway around 😂

        but hmm, it seems there’s 14k words in the wiki and the default max word count is 10k. Either the wiki split into a post and comment then lock the post, or ask naomi whether we can increase the word count. but i’d suggest option A cus i don’t wanna bug her with more work😆.

        • @NaomikhoA
          3•1 year ago

          I haven’t been checking the coding side of the stuff in a while :< I have been more busy with work lately and I’m focusing more on the ops/infra side for now. I do intend to continue the bot though

          • Annoyed_🦀 🏅A
            2•1 year ago

            Haha, it’s okay lah, we all understand that 😁 we’ll make do with whatever we have now, still very small community and bots isn’t much of a need yet, just focus on what you believe is higher priority (ง •_•)ง

        • @weecious
          1•1 year ago

          Hahahahahaha!

          Option A is good enough for now. Yeah, she’s carrying the server a lot, don’t think need to add this onto her plate.

          • Annoyed_🦀 🏅A
            2•1 year ago

            yup yup, just remember to change the wording from r/malaysia to monyet.cc with snel approval, and also don’t forgetting the formatting as well! and lock the post afterward.

            once you’re done, lemme know and i’ll put it on the side bar.

            • @weecious
              1•1 year ago

              Sure thing, I’ll need some time to do so. And oh, my sibling agreed to look at my keyboard for me, I’ll only have a keyboard to use on Friday.

              I need 48 hours in a day. Or a 3-weekend. 2-day is simply not enough 💀

              • Annoyed_🦀 🏅A
                2•1 year ago

                Nice! Good to hear that!

                Haha, take your time, there isn’t a deadline🙈