Executive Summary: The EA Forum Team is shifting focus toward community building over technical development, aiming to strengthen the Forum’s role as a central online space for effective altruism (EA), fostering high-quality discourse, and enabling collective intellectual progress.
Key Points:
Declining Forum Metrics and Refocus on Community Building: Usage metrics have declined since 2023, prompting a strategy shift from software improvements to prioritizing community engagement and discourse quality.
Centrality of the EA Forum: A strong, central online platform is deemed essential for advancing EA’s influence and intellectual progress, despite uncertainties about the Forum being the ideal platform.
Vision for the Forum Community: Goals include fostering discourse that embodies EA principles, enabling interdisciplinary collaboration, and supporting a sense of community and constructive debate.
Proactive Strategies and Challenges: The Forum Team is experimenting with outreach, moderating discussions, promoting high-quality content, and addressing challenges like integrating new contributors and managing adjacent online spaces.
Deprioritized Technical Features: The team is pausing work on non-core features like a mobile app, personalized recommendations, and certain UX improvements to focus on content and community-building efforts.
Call to Action for Community Support: Suggestions include increased user activity, promoting valuable contributors, and volunteering to strengthen sub-communities on the Forum.
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Executive Summary:
The EA Forum Team is shifting focus toward community building over technical development, aiming to strengthen the Forum’s role as a central online space for effective altruism (EA), fostering high-quality discourse, and enabling collective intellectual progress.
Key Points:
Declining Forum Metrics and Refocus on Community Building: Usage metrics have declined since 2023, prompting a strategy shift from software improvements to prioritizing community engagement and discourse quality.
Centrality of the EA Forum: A strong, central online platform is deemed essential for advancing EA’s influence and intellectual progress, despite uncertainties about the Forum being the ideal platform.
Vision for the Forum Community: Goals include fostering discourse that embodies EA principles, enabling interdisciplinary collaboration, and supporting a sense of community and constructive debate.
Proactive Strategies and Challenges: The Forum Team is experimenting with outreach, moderating discussions, promoting high-quality content, and addressing challenges like integrating new contributors and managing adjacent online spaces.
Deprioritized Technical Features: The team is pausing work on non-core features like a mobile app, personalized recommendations, and certain UX improvements to focus on content and community-building efforts.
Call to Action for Community Support: Suggestions include increased user activity, promoting valuable contributors, and volunteering to strengthen sub-communities on the Forum.
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