We are a repair shop in Sheffield, powered by volunteers, providing affordable repairs of electricals, furniture and clothing.
Reyt Repair has been open for 3 and a half years, we’re getting very close to our 3000th repair, and we are poised at the moment to scale up our funding and our activities.
We welcome visitors and collaborations - particularly from local groups, please get in touch!
I’m hoping this thread can be a place where groups from our region can introduce themselves and you can follow it and/or the Yorkshire-Humber tag to keep informed of posts that are especially relevant to us.
I help run a repair café there, run by Harland Works. They’ve been running it for several years, and had a year-or-two gap without a venue.
as part of Sheffield Hackspace, we’ve been helping run it by providing a venue, and we’ve held four now this year (on the third Sunday of the month :]). There are some blog posts written about it below. I expect it will happen 5 times more this year! always welcoming volunteers (or fixees!)
I hope that this forum will help us network, I realise now that it’s not visible unless you have joined already, so won’t be discoverable by someone looking for fellow repairers on the wider internet. We’ll have to tell others about it and get them to join.
I noticed this earlier. Some of the posts on the homepage (https://talk.restarters.net/) have a small padlock, and require you to be logged in to view (like this topic). Meanwhile, some don’t, and are viewable on the wider web. Not sure who or what chooses whether a post is padlocked or not.
Hello both! We chose which categories to make public and which to keep private when we first launched this forum back in 2018 after this discussion on the subject: Which discussion categories should be public?
tl;dr: the forum emerged from a private Google Group for our London community. The general feeling at the time was that we’d rather keep most conversations visible only to logged-in users, while opening up others.
It’s potentially something we could revisit, though would need a wider discussion
makes sense — if we wanted to, we could always re-tag (or re-post) under a different category (I guess How to repair in your community or Events) and it would be public :]
I think it would be preferable to have this thread public, James can you confirm a way we can do this easily that fits within the existing public/private distinction? Is alifee’s suggestion the best way to do this?
