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Meta Which posts or types of posts to migrate in?

Which posts or types of posts to migrate in? None of them. For this site to be successful, it needs to have activity here. Copying posts from SE only creates the illusion of activity, then becomes...

posted 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2020-06-30T19:45:06Z (over 4 years ago)
<blockquote>Which posts or types of posts to migrate in?</blockquote>

<b>None of them.</b>

For this site to be successful, it needs to have activity <i>here</i>.  Copying posts from SE only creates the illusion of activity, then becomes worse than useless when people realize after reading the whole question, that it was was asked and answered years ago.

For people to come here, the site needs to be <i>better</i> than elsewhere.  Obviously copying content from elsewhere doesn't achieve that.

This site is dying due to lack of activity.  If you want to save it, create some <i>real</i> activity.  Invite people interested in photography to come here, and to spread the word that this is a good place to get answers.  Have the experts you invite each write a few home-grown canonical questions to get things started.  These can be similar to those they have written elsewhere, but re-writing gives the opportunity to clean them up, clarify a little, etc.

I was already here on Codidact for other reasons.  I keep checking this site, but it's been feeling more and more like a waste of time.  The latest activity in most catagories is days to weeks old.