My most urgent need is to get paid; but I’m trying to fulfill this need with literature and writers because I am a writer and would love to have a place where it’s possible to discuss literature and everything related to it in a manner that’s less serious and demanding than academia, but deeper than normal social networks (where you don’t go deep at all). Something as light and fulfilling as a great conversation you might have over dinner with your friends.
Agreed. It might be a great way of meeting them where they already are and inviting them to check the deep community stuff, all the while they will still be connected to each other and, therefore, inside the community.
How steep do you feel the learning curve of Discourse forums is? I’m writing a sequence of 8-12 onboarding weekly e-mails, so new-comers can smoothly get the grip both of the software and our community culture/potentials while also incentivizing them to take a couple of actions (such as posting a text they wrote, answering a question publicly, giving feedback etc.) on each e-mail.
I ask this because my main concern is that people won’t use channels and chat on Discourse. Having them disabled is also a way of de-cluttering the sidebar navigation, that’s overwhelming.