someone on reddit made some secret subreddits for certain acievements:
- controversial club - one of the most controvertial posts on reddit within an hour
- popular club - top 25 posts on reddit of the day
- eternity club - popular club clone
- ternion club - popular club but you also got ternion
etc…
why they exist? who knows, but i guess they are no longer secrets
Eternity club was all boring selfies and what’s you’re favorite movie and shit.
Popular club sucked too.
I got added to it for a top post once. I opened the popular subreddit and the top post was something like, “Well, I’m here. Now what?”
I knew immediately it was dumb.
I think “secret” communities can be good when they’re for a specialized interest. But they don’t even have to be secret. Even just niche is great.
For example, the discord for the game PolyBridge is fucking incredible. I mean, it kind of sucks right now because they just released PolyBridge 3, so a lot of new people have (temporarily) joined.
But there are regulars who post hourly years after PolyBridge releases. There is even this one person called Arglin who posts absurdly complex essays on geometry and new discoveries within the game. They could be dissertations on mathematics.
If anyone is still reading this, I have to tell you about the Linkage Repository. This document is insane. For an Indie studio’s bridge building game lol.