Thanks for sharing this Roger.
Our main objective with Restarters.net is to make life easier for those involved in organising, running or fixing at community repair events, as well as help us all stay connected, share learning and scale our impact through data. So, we’ve tried to design the site to highlight these kinds of features and pages. This is explained in more detail in the topic about How to power up community repair with Restarters.net.
While sharing repair knowledge is certainly an important part of this, it’s worth knowing that the #repair-stories:repair-help category on Talk is really new. It actually didn’t exist when we planned this work and the plan was to draw more attention to the repair Wiki as a place to contribute and learn repair info. We created the forum category in response to in-person events being cancelled due to the coronavirus emergency - the hope was to offer repair advice to the wider public via social media, using that category as an internal space to discuss each item first. I have to say, we were a little disappointed by the lack of uptake on social media but are really glad that it’s proving to be a productive space nevertheless!
Ultimately, I think we feel that this site is less geared up for a general audience who have items they want fixing and more for those who perform the repairs and/or who run repair events.
Does that make sense?