Does become a bit of a philosophical question though doesn’t it: Is a community really moderated if it has zero activity?

Also, I somewhat object to the framing of “moderators owning communities”. I don’t own the community I mod, I serve it. If it was a ghost town, and closing it down would prevent people stumbling into it and wasting their time, I would be completely in favour of it.

Yeah, the ship has largely sailed. But also, there are lots of communities that are empty and also functionally unmoderated, so some could be removed.

Honestly, I think we have way too many communities. Cull them back to a small set of fairly broad communities: Arts, Tech, Politics, etc. Once those are active enough, then start to subdivide as the sub communities grew to a sufficient size to self-sustain.

What happened instead, was people tried to create all the same communities that reddit has, without the people to sustain them, and now it looks like a ghost town.

Programming.dev has been hiding a lot of those kind of communities by default, others could as well:

https://legal.programming.dev/docs/hidden-communities/

But even with that fairly substantial hide list, I agree, we do drown in news and politics.

Depends on the Corp, some do legit cutting edge work, some really don’t do much actual research.

Been a while since I’ve seen a bluescreen period. 10 and 11, for all their faults, have been pretty stable on that front. Crowdstrike did spoil a very good run.

Yes. Separate out each part out. You are currently publishing the equivalent of of a compiled binary. Split it up, and use a script to “compile” it back into the mega shell script.

It means that changes to each file can tracked (and audited) individually, you can conditionally compile bits in or out, and most usefully, you can write tests for the individual components.

Sorry, but a photo of a directory structure is not a source tree.

Your git repo consists of 4 files, a readme, a licence, and two packed shell scripts.

If you have an actual published source repo, link people to it.

I dont understand why people do this

Charitably: AI turbocharged dunning-kruger

Less charitable: Malware delivery.

There is no good reason why they couldn’t have a normal source tree, that they pack into a single shell script in CI.