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submitted 1 day ago by LightOnFoot@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
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Hey everyone.

I thought I’d make a post for anyone to comment on with suggestions they’d like to see in this community. Seeing as it’s starting to get quite a bit more active, and now that we have several mods, we should probably make it more professional looking, with a proper sidebar and maybe some other features you might have seen in another community that you liked.

If anyone has seen ideas they’d like to see here, feel free to suggest them in the comments on this post and myself and the other mods can possibly implement them. I’ll leave this post pinned so it’s easy to access, in case you read this and have an idea later on.

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[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hi there! First, thanks for running this community, it's been great to see all the Canadian pride and brands!

A few thoughts: With a few volunteers, I wonder if we could make a big old wiki or site with various options. (If so, should we organize it with similar categories to one of the buy canada websites so that we can update from them and vice versa?)

To win any war, we need allies. I imagine a lot of us are subscribed to BuyEuropean, I wonder if it might be worthwhile to also create a third community, /BuyUnAmerican or somesuch and try to find replacements for as much as possible?

Happy to help however I can!

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

BuyUnAmerican or somesuch and try to find replacements for as much as possible?

There’s a community for that called !boycottus@lemmy.ca

[–] MyBrainHurts@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Love it, thank you!

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I like the idea of a Wiki. There are several things I'd like to easily search like what is made locally, which companies have a poor track record in worker rights and so on. Would be nice to start getting this information organized and crowdsourced.

[–] LightOnFoot@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Hey! Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it!

I’d be open to a wiki, if someone else could do it. I’m not the most tech-savvy, but I’d happily link to it or whatever I need to do to make it visible to this community.

In the sidebar I’m going to add a few related communities for folks to check out. Look for that shortly. If you notice any are missing, feel free to let me know. You can reply to this comment or reach out to me directly. Either is fine.

[–] Aspen10310@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hi. Once the weather improves could there be some way we could document local farmers markets across the country? Buying local is the best thing we could do for our farmers, we just need to harness this platform to make the information available. 🇨🇦

[–] LightOnFoot@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

That sounds like a great idea. I’ll see what I can do

[–] rxbudian@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How about a permanent central place where we can find a well organized list of Canadian substitutes.
It's nice to have questions posted with comments answered inside them, but soon, newcomers may start repeating the questions

[–] LightOnFoot@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

I like the idea but I’m not sure how easy it will be to compile a list of that size. I’m definitely open to it, and might start writing down some products as I see them posted here, and maybe in the future make a giant list of recommended substitutes. Maybe for now I’ll look for a website that does something similar and link to it, until I can get a good list of my own

[–] zhenbo_endle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I'd suggest to have several tags, like [PR] = Product Recommendation [HS] = Help Needed, [Travel] [Food] etc.

Like https://lemmy.ca/c/bapcsalescanada they have [CPU] [GPU] [Monitor]

But I'm not sure how should we organize these tags

[–] MapleBug@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm new here and don't completely get how all of this works yet, but some way to label?/sidebar?/wiki? local products for the provinces. Not all brands are available everywhere in Canada, though that might start to change with bringing down the internal trade barriers.

[–] LightOnFoot@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago

I’m not against the idea, but I’m not sure how I’d be able to implement it. Most product suggestions come from the users here so all I could really do is ask people to include if the product they’re recommending is exclusive to a specific province. I suppose I could add that to the rules. I will eventually have a master post with a bunch of Canadian alternatives and I could include province-specific labels at that time though