Thanks for sharing! I mostly agree. If you read my posts from the past 2 years you can see part of the story for why the Forum is the way it is. Broadly, the Online Team has been more focused on supporting the rest of CEA and doing growth-related work, and we’ve been putting less and less FTE toward the Forum over time (~1.5 FTE when I left).
I feel sad that we didn’t push as much on quality and community as I had originally wanted. I found it challenging to try to convince leadership of the impact of doing cultivation work on the Forum, partly because the impact is actually quite nebulous and risks being just entertainment for EAs. Ultimately I still believe that there are tipping points that would cause the Forum to lose the majority of its value, and community building on the Forum can have significant impact by preventing that.
Thanks for sharing! I mostly agree. If you read my posts from the past 2 years you can see part of the story for why the Forum is the way it is. Broadly, the Online Team has been more focused on supporting the rest of CEA and doing growth-related work, and we’ve been putting less and less FTE toward the Forum over time (~1.5 FTE when I left).
I feel sad that we didn’t push as much on quality and community as I had originally wanted. I found it challenging to try to convince leadership of the impact of doing cultivation work on the Forum, partly because the impact is actually quite nebulous and risks being just entertainment for EAs. Ultimately I still believe that there are tipping points that would cause the Forum to lose the majority of its value, and community building on the Forum can have significant impact by preventing that.