Hi, glad to see your feed back.
These days, I’m thinking about the Value of a Foum in a The Current World (You see, most people read by Phone rather than Computer, people mostly use Google + Facebook/Twitter/Quora/Wechat/Zhihu )
In my opinion, Discourse is quite beautiful, but not so good at popularize itself. And a not so active community means DIE!!! .
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It’s quite neat, neat is beautiful, but not making people additicted to it. Many websites uses subscribtion system, make people remember logging in everyday.
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Many websites Use invitation for bonus system, make people keep inviting their friends
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Many websites use bonus system, like user level (which often has 10 even 100 levels, rather than 4 levels in Discourse) or Forum Coin , to make people feel that they has gain sth, to make them feel the stimulation / motivation.
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Many websites use evaluation system . You see, people go to the forum to read valuable posts. The not so valuable posts should be ranked lower and the valuable ones should be upper. If the discourse just makes All the stuffs there , then who will want to read these ?
Have to say it again. Not so active communities will DIE!!
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