Sorry if this has been discussed here before, I‘m a new reddit refugee and I just stumbled over this community, awesome that this place already exists again! I always enjoyed the discussion threads on the subreddit throughout a race weekend, so I was wondering if something similar will be done here? On the other hand, this community is still very small, so it may be a little overkill I guess. Looking forward to following my first GP through Lemmy either way - I‘ll see you all on Friday

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    The plan is to make a weekend a race discussion, I am working on getting a bot running to automate the process but as we get things going it will be manual.

    As for race spoilers in titles we have not made a decision, May need to get a community vote going. I living in west coast US also dislike the spoilers but try to remember folks are pretty excited about their team winning. Not sure how I would vote at this time. Please think about it yourselves.

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    I hope so, might take a bit of time to get off the ground but it would be really cool to see this place grow

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    I would also like to see discussion threads. Maybe not seperate ones for each session since the community is still small?

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      Yeah maybe we should keep them together a bit more. Although a separation of practice/quali/race is needed as a minimum imo

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        Sounds reasonable. What do the moderators think about this? I think they would be the ones to manage this stuff, as there is probably no bot yet, right?

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          There is no bot and no bot support, so one of us would need to be online to pin the thread. I think for quali and most race’s that should be easy enough, practice sessions could be more difficult depending on when the team are available and what time zone they are in

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    I’m trying to figure out if this is now the major hub for F1 fans or if Discord OS winning—any numbers from either? I certainly prefer it here!

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      No discord please. It was ok for playing games but any kind of discussion is better to be asynchronous like on a forum

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      I tried out the discord and just found it wasn’t nearly as good for having a forum style discussion. It was basically a big group chat with everyone having their own conversations over each other without a real way of organizing them. I’m hoping this community here can be the new hub!

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        Yeah, I really hope this becomes the place. Anything we can do to encourage the Discord group to migrate here or to get r/Formula1 to update their blackout message?

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          We can probably share this community link in the off-topic channel on the discord. Not sure about the blackout message though (doesn’t actually even show on most mobile 3rd party apps like Apollo). I’m not certain where the Reddit F1 mods will fall in wanting to pull people out of the subreddit definitively.

          Either way I agree, hoping we can make this a lively enough place.

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    I’d like to add, as someone who has to time-shift watching the grand prix, I sure would appreciate not having the weekend spoiled in post titles. I literally had to unsubscribe and even filter out r/formula1 because they’d post spoilers in post titles.

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      The community has voted for no spoilers in thread titles, but I won’t have the rules in place by the time th GP comes around, so I can’t promise it will be enforced by then.