Curious to Hear Your Best Discourse Lesson So Far

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Hello everyone,

I’ve been spending some time reading through different topics here, and it’s clear there’s a lot of knowledge in this community.Rather than asking a technical question right away, I thought I’d ask something a little broader.

If someone gave you a brand-new Discourse community to manage today, what’s the first piece of advice you’d share? It could be about encouraging discussions, organizing categories, handling moderation, or avoiding a mistake you made early on. I’m always interested in learning from real experiences, and I think those kinds of lessons are often more valuable than any guide.Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and joining more conversations around the forum!

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If I could go back time, I would avoid creating complex themes. I had spent way too much time tinkering with the forum instead of actually making content to my platform. It is somewhat a form of procrastination, because theming Discourse is pretty fun.

I’m not advising against it, because you probably want to give your users a good experience. I think Foundation is a good theme, specially now with the modernization, but it is pretty overused, which is not a bad thing since people are already used to it.