# Should we have weekly beginners / working on threads here?

**URL:** <https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/should-we-have-weekly-beginners-working-on-threads-here/151>\
**Category:** Request Feedback\
**Created:** [December 4, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/should-we-have-weekly-beginners-working-on-threads-here/151 "2017-12-04T14:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![brian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/brian/32/2180_2.png) [@brian](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:30pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/should-we-have-weekly-beginners-working-on-threads-here/151/1 "2017-12-04T14:30:49Z")

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On the Elm subreddit, we have two weekly posts:

1. Easy Questions / Beginners Thread
2. What Are You Working On?

These are nice because they decrease the barrier to participation. #1 calls out “please let us help you”, while #2 says “it doesn’t have to be finished to be of interest to people.” I think they encourage good community discussion and collaboration.

I would like to do something similar here, but since Discourse’s replies are linear, we can’t get quite the same experience. If we did everything in a single thread, the replies would get unmanageable. So: **how can we get the same nice community experience on Discourse?**

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**Author:** ![evancz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.elm-lang.org/evancz/32/16_2.png) [@evancz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/evancz)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/should-we-have-weekly-beginners-working-on-threads-here/151/2 "2017-12-04T19:04:35Z")

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I’d say just have a link to the thing on reddit. No need to force it to be in both places. The /r/elm has more of a mix of “outside observers” who have never actually used Elm at all, so it is probably good to make folks who are deeper in the community available there.