Hey everyone.

I thought I’d make a post for anyone to comment on with suggestions they’d like to see in this community. Seeing as it’s starting to get quite a bit more active, and now that we have several mods, we should probably make it more professional looking, with a proper sidebar and maybe some other features you might have seen in another community that you liked.

If anyone has seen ideas they’d like to see here, feel free to suggest them in the comments on this post and myself and the other mods can possibly implement them. I’ll leave this post pinned so it’s easy to access, in case you read this and have an idea later on.

  • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Hi there! First, thanks for running this community, it’s been great to see all the Canadian pride and brands!

    A few thoughts: With a few volunteers, I wonder if we could make a big old wiki or site with various options. (If so, should we organize it with similar categories to one of the buy canada websites so that we can update from them and vice versa?)

    To win any war, we need allies. I imagine a lot of us are subscribed to BuyEuropean, I wonder if it might be worthwhile to also create a third community, /BuyUnAmerican or somesuch and try to find replacements for as much as possible?

    Happy to help however I can!

    • LightOnFoot@lemmy.caOPM
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      3 days ago

      Hey! Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it!

      I’d be open to a wiki, if someone else could do it. I’m not the most tech-savvy, but I’d happily link to it or whatever I need to do to make it visible to this community.

      In the sidebar I’m going to add a few related communities for folks to check out. Look for that shortly. If you notice any are missing, feel free to let me know. You can reply to this comment or reach out to me directly. Either is fine.

      • MyBrainHurts@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Hi there, sorry for the delay!

        I’ve never built a wiki, nor have any clue how to do it but I’ll start looking into it and then circle back to the community seeking out feedback about organization/layout and any other design or UX stuff we should consider.

        Edit: One other thing, do we have a way to automatically cross-post submissions to this community to say, !boycottus@lemmy.ca ? (This seems like a mod ability or some such?)

        • LightOnFoot@lemmy.caOPM
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          8 hours ago

          Awesome!

          I don’t think there’s an auto cross post feature, at least not that I know of. Mod abilities here are more rudimentary than on Reddit for sure. I’ll look into it though

    • Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      I like the idea of a Wiki. There are several things I’d like to easily search like what is made locally, which companies have a poor track record in worker rights and so on. Would be nice to start getting this information organized and crowdsourced.