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Following up on the Audio category: was that really necessary?

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/julia-users/audio|sort:relevance

There have been 33 posts in Julia-users with the word “audio” in its whole run. The majority of that is picking up posts which just have the word audio in it. JuliaAudio is an org, but it’s a small org without much usage yet (at least judging by the admittedly bad indicator of stars).

Telling people to post their 4 posts a year in such a small category is a good way to have no one read it, which defeats the purpose of the category. If every 4-5 posts per year topic is a separate category, there will be tons of categories most people won’t read, so most people won’t respond in, and so everyone will just post in the main forum. They need to be at least populated enough to be useful.

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