I’ve let the survey run for long enough now I suppose (at least I’m not getting any new responses) so I’m making this post with the “results”. If anyone is interested in the raw data I’ll post it but for now I’ll just focus on the conclusion I’ve drawn from it.

For the most part responses only varied slightly but most of the questions were only there to help make a decision about the core question: What do you want to happen with this instance now?. The responses to which varied a lot compared to the other questions.

There were some votes against opening up the instance to other series discussions but I myself and the majority of votes are in favor so that’s what will happen. However I really dislike seeing empty discussion threads so there will be some rules in place so this doesn’t end up like a spam machine. As is with all things in life these are subject to change.

#1: There must be at least 3 users interested in regular discussions for a series to create a community for it here. There should be some regular volume of discussion for the series and 3 core users should facilitate that.

Note: If there already are discussion or fan art posts for a series on the Fediverse feel free to provide some of them to show that the newly created community would not just rot in a corner.

#2: If the series does not have weekly chapters there should be some form of plan for how to structure this so there is regular activity.

There is little sense in using a community only for volume discussions and nothing else those could just as well take place in [email protected]. As such there should at least be some discussion in between volumes (discussions about characters, fan art, whatever really)

Note: If the series does not release on J-Novel Club please be aware that @[email protected] will be unable to automatically create posts for it. In those cases threads need to be manually created every week.

If anyone is interested in a series and thinks they can meet these 2 rules please message me either here or via Matrix (@neshura:neshweb.chat) so we can discuss the details.

Additionally I’ll post a list of links to any volume or chapter/part discussion threads to the weekly thread over at [email protected]. It’s something I should have done with the PrePub discussions for Ascendance of a Bookworm as well but I didn’t think of it until now.