I think #general makes sense for
- many smaller sites, especially those where the overall focus of discussion is narrow
- sites that haven’t put a lot of work into thinking about categories [1]
I won’t claim my sites are huge, but #general wouldn’t really work.
To make this all concrete, in case this helps:
Currently, we have two sites, end-user-support-focused Ask Fedora and project-mainatainer/contributor-focused Fedora Discussion. After running with that split for several years, we’ve decided to merge Ask into being a sub-category of Discussion.
Based on experience, we definitely want the default category for new users to be Ask Fedora. Otherwise, chaos ensues. But, people who are more involved in the contributor side are likely to want the Project Discussions category (the current default on Discussion) to be that default. It’d be nice to present this as an easy option.
(Let me know if I should split this into its own topic or make a ticket somewhere…)
admittedly, most sites in my experience *sigh* ↩︎