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This really feels like a renaissance of the issues people had with nascent web forums at the time, where one of the most insidious and subtle killers was overze

• eqmvii 5y ago
  I fought this battle and lost many times. More sub forums just means fewer eyeballs on any given topic…
• nerdponx 5y ago
  This, exactly. I'm astounded that people think it's some kind of attention-hacking conspiracy.
• bitshiftfaced 5y ago
  I'm thinking of one particular discord server where there was a small group of interested contributors. Then the creator split it into dozens of subchannel categories that I suppose they thought made sense. It was overwhelming and felt like too much work just to figure out where you needed to chat. Most of the channels saw no activity at all, and interest in the server died. What you do instead is start with one channel about the topic of interest. If people start talking so much about "alternative topic b" that it interferes with the main topic, then (and only then) do you splinter it off to its own channel. People can then mute that channel and boost the signal that they came there for. But it has to come from a genuine need. My other pet peeve is when people get gung-ho over moving a currently active discussion to the "correct" channel. More times than not, it's too much trouble and just kills a discussion that would have otherwise been interesting and fruitful.
• indymike 5y ago
  Mega-thread vs. subforum, the debate still rages.