Iām not sure, but I actually think the amount of content capacity put towards the Forum has been about the same for its whole lifetime (~a bit less than 1 FTE). However, I think that content capacity has been focused on different things over time (Lizka got pulled into a bunch of random non-Forum projects for example, and there were fewer āForum eventsā before Toby started running them). Also the Forum community has changed a lot over time.
In the early days, the community was really small, so probably they didnāt get many promotional posts because orgs didnāt know about it (and there were less EA-related orgs). But we got a huge boost in awareness and users around WWOTF and FTX, so that changes how orgs relate to the Forum. In another comment I mentioned that I think online spaces naturally move toward being ābulletin boardā-like after they have an established audience. Personally I occasionally get this feeling when visiting the Forum, when a lot of the Frontpage are posts from orgs. Those just tend not to invite discussion, even if the org would in fact be happy for people to comment on them. I think we need to be careful about how the Forum āfeelsā and what visitors perceive the space to be āaboutā ā I think if people start to think that it would feel weird to comment on a Forum post, thatās a really bad state for us to be in.
Iām not sure, but I actually think the amount of content capacity put towards the Forum has been about the same for its whole lifetime (~a bit less than 1 FTE). However, I think that content capacity has been focused on different things over time (Lizka got pulled into a bunch of random non-Forum projects for example, and there were fewer āForum eventsā before Toby started running them). Also the Forum community has changed a lot over time.
In the early days, the community was really small, so probably they didnāt get many promotional posts because orgs didnāt know about it (and there were less EA-related orgs). But we got a huge boost in awareness and users around WWOTF and FTX, so that changes how orgs relate to the Forum. In another comment I mentioned that I think online spaces naturally move toward being ābulletin boardā-like after they have an established audience. Personally I occasionally get this feeling when visiting the Forum, when a lot of the Frontpage are posts from orgs. Those just tend not to invite discussion, even if the org would in fact be happy for people to comment on them. I think we need to be careful about how the Forum āfeelsā and what visitors perceive the space to be āaboutā ā I think if people start to think that it would feel weird to comment on a Forum post, thatās a really bad state for us to be in.