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1 year agoBut who gets to curate that? How who has to sift through all of the 8000 instances and figures out the topic of each of likely thiusands of communities?
Automated sounds as though it’s purely based off of the community name? How does it figure out the difference between table top gaming or video gaming or even slots/gambling?
What about football? American or the rest of the world?
What about politics? Is it left wing or right wing?
Seems like a cool idea at first, but when you get into the weeds it becomes a pretty complicated issue.
Have you considered storing as a Map instead?
MDN Map docs