Hey,
Thanks, everyone, for the comments. It’s humbling but helpful to hear the feedback. I appreciate the candor; thank you again.
My main takeaway is to focus more on the psychological reasons people participate in our community rather than the technological ones. I need to sharpen the ‘why’ for participating.
Second, if anyone else sees the discussion and is interested in sharing the development costs of this feature as a theme component or plugin, please contact me with your budget.
Third, I’ll continue to cross my fingers that this gets added to the official roadmap. That’s always going to be the best kind of support and functionality for it to be integrated into the platform.
This discussion prompted me to look at a wide variety of platforms. It’s pretty standard for there to be a large area for creating a post - front and center!
For instance:
Reddit:
Twitter:
Circle
I have my criticisms of these platforms. But, in one of the most prominent parts of their design, they feature the creation of new content. So I think it’s reasonable to propose that Discourse consider this functionality as well.