Nope, there should be a cap. Any site still gets to opt in but getting featured is not guaranteed.
Our index, our rules; we decide.
Don’t see why they should. I do however think we should have a concept of “Highlighted Communities” which get prime real estate, e.g. as illustrated in one of @rewphus’ mockups:
We’d highlight sites that are good examples of something, e.g. good design, good community culture, good stewardship of a forum at scale etc.
Nah, not in any way other than potentially getting highlighted.
I’m sure we can come up with 10-20 tags that will be generally applicable to the majority of Discourse forums. Here’s my suggested approach:
- Every site gets to choose between a maximum of 3 tags
- One of those tags will be “other”. When that is one of the selected tags we could show (I’m assuming this interface is in /admin somewhere) a small notice like:
Can’t find a fitting tag? Feel free to mail your suggestion to directory@discourse.org
In other words we’d automate only what we have to. Display would work like on the Middleman Directory:
I’m all 
about this. I’ve been wanting a more exhaustive overview of our many “partners” for quite some time. “What are some good example Discourse sites?” is also a very frequent question here in the community.
This is jumping ahead a little bit, but I just wanna clear up real quick:
Do you have some tech in mind already? Some sort of lightweight single-page application?
Just wanted to point out that at least the v1 of this sounded like something like Jekyll + jekyll-get could handle with ease, but