My guess for the current even distribution of votes is this:
Those who voted in favor of keeping all the content in this community wish to have a centralized location of all news and related information instead of having to subscribe to an additional community.
Those who voted in favor of “Create the gamedev_news community” wish to either not see [engine, tool, gamedev company] related news or wish to have a dedicated community for that exact content.
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What might happen is that the current community becomes more saturated/concentrated with people looking for engine, tool, gamedev company news and those who don’t care for it unsubscribe/leave to look for a community focused on providing game development content(probably on another Lemmy instance).
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So if there’s a likely probability that the community fractures due to differing needs then wouldn’t creating a new community to provide the needs of both groups benefit everyone?
the unfortunate con of this plan is that this does cause my first point to happen[1] which goes against the wants of those wanting a centralized location
the pro would be that programming.dev can cater to the needs of both types of people:
satisfies people looking for engine, tool, gamedev company news in c/community1
satisfies people looking for game dev content in c/community2
This in turn likely creates 2 sustainable communities where people want to actively engage in their community because it’s tailor made for them
So rather than 1 community staying active while some people get pushed out for no good reason maybe creating 2 at the cost of tediousness might be a worthwile tradeoff?
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What do yall think though about this approach as it does suck having to subscribe to another community but maybe it might be better as it might offer more tailored content for those looking for it? eh maybe someone has a better solution than this one
When making this post I was thinking of like categories in Steam and how having more seperated but specific tags helps us find games that we’re looking for