Yea, I'm not quite sure either. I guess the best thing to do is just keep posting - perhaps we could start posting old start pages and linking to the creator's Git Hub as a way to build content here.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Hey, I am one of the former mods of /r/startpages (quit a few days ago since I don't use reddit at all anymore). Unfortunately I'm not sure if it's possible to send out a mass message to subscribers. I was hoping the private subreddit message would be enough to get the ball rolling over here but I guess I was wrong.
I was on /r/startpages since it's conception and know it took a long time to grow the community there as well. I do believe we'll hit a good momentum over here eventually but I am open to suggestions on growing faster.
It's just going to take some time. I don't think it will happen over night, and expecting a full transition to what once was, is just asking for disappointment.
I don't want to speak for others, but one of the reasons I even went to r/startpages was for inspiration. After being inspired, I would comment, participate in conversations, try out things people have made, give feedback and in general be a community member. Without existing content for inspiration, people like me have nothing to do here.
It really frustrates me that I can't go back and look at the existing content. What about all those nice posts about people starting small projects that then become very popular over the years. e.g. nighttab. Reddit Inc's API changes didn't kill this subreddit, the mods did.
IMO, if you want this kbin sub to kick off again, you need to give people access to the existing content. That way when you google "startpage" theres examples to give new-comers to the hobby an idea of what a startpage even is.
Theres a lot of ways to approach this, heres three:
Unprivate the subreddit but make it so nobody can post and pin a post redirecting here. - Easiest and a compromise between continuing your protest and giving people access to the content.
You could even unprivate it long enough for someone to archive all the pages to the internet archive site.
Repost all posts from reddit, to here - would require scraping and mass posting, preferably user a "startpages" bot account.
Make an archive of all the posts.