If at some point you’re seriously considering downsizing the EA forum team or even shutting it down, maybe consider running a (simple) crowdfunding campaign for the EA forum among users, both to get funding and to get a better sense of how much users value having a value-aligned forum (optimizing for quality, usefulness & user happiness) instead of only a subreddit.
My sense is that quite a lot of users value it quite a lot (just based on how much time people seem to spend on the forum), but I don’t have data on it.
Yeah I would be interested in experimenting with ways we could do community-based funding for Forum things! :) You’ll definitely hear about it if we give it a shot lol
If at some point you’re seriously considering downsizing the EA forum team or even shutting it down, maybe consider running a (simple) crowdfunding campaign for the EA forum among users, both to get funding and to get a better sense of how much users value having a value-aligned forum (optimizing for quality, usefulness & user happiness) instead of only a subreddit.
My sense is that quite a lot of users value it quite a lot (just based on how much time people seem to spend on the forum), but I don’t have data on it.
Yeah I would be interested in experimenting with ways we could do community-based funding for Forum things! :) You’ll definitely hear about it if we give it a shot lol