Very short TL;DR: we’re closing the subforums that we were testing, and pivoting to developing more polished and easy-to-use topic pages that help readers explore those topics.
Slightly less brief:
We were testing hosting subforums on the Forum. We launched subforums for Effective Giving, Bioethics, Software Development, and Forecasting & Estimation.
We faced some issues with the subforums and decided to discontinue that project (at least for the near future — we might revisit subforums). (See more on what we learned.) The existing subforums are closing (and most will become “core topic” pages).
Content from the subforums — discussion threads, posts, etc. — will still be available on the Forum. (Posts on the topic pages, discussions in the “Posts” tab.[3])
We still want to build better topic-specific spaces on the Forum, and are developing “core topic” pages that we hope will let people keep up with content on those topics or go deeper into topic-specific content.
(We also hope to support better systems for having more informal conversations on the Forum; see what we’re doing with shortform discussions below.)
Have you considered developing a “core topic” page on animal welfare?
Thanks for sharing, David!
Do you have any thoughts on EA Forum’s experiment of having subforums, and subsequent pivoting to core pages? For context:
Have you considered developing a “core topic” page on animal welfare?
I remember the ‘subforums’ being more like chat rooms in their user design than actual sub forums which you can navigate through from a front page.