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!wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social
I took over and got an auto-bot going for the daily threads. We have a small but active core group of people there, and I have another buddy lined up to help run the place when he has more time.
It was a lot busier during the reddit boycott, but most people have returned to reddit... July and August have some big "events" at r/wetshaving that a ton of people participate in, so activity has moved back there.
A big problem that !wetshaving ran into was the bot breaking with the upgrade to 0.18.x, which had the unfortunate timing of happening when everyone helping run the place got really busy with one of the reddit events, and it made it seem like the instance had been abandoned.
I think over time it'll develop into a decent community. My next project is hosting a wiki based on the r/wetshaving wiki.
What happened /r/wicked_edge? It used to be the big wetshaving sub.
It's still alive and well. r/wetshaving is organized differently and has a great community feel to it. In general, the people in r/wetshaving are more discerning about their hobby than what you might find at r/wicked_edge. There are giveaways (PIFs), contests, the occasional review, dedicated threads for certain types of posts, etc. Wicked Edge is a bit of a free-for-all for people who prefer that format.