In my opinion you're 100% right! Those challenges are real and a new version cannot be just a clone of dmoz. AI/recommender systems could play a role in such

In my opinion you're 100% right! Those challenges are real and a new version cannot be just a clone of dmoz. AI/recommender systems could play a role in such a project, the relationship between discovery of new stuff and finding resources on already known topics has to be discussed and so on... I invite you to bring in your ideas here or in the curlz.org forum.