This seems like more of an ad for Discourse instead of a real conversation. On that, I don't believe Jeff Atwood has a secret for creating a great community.

This seems like more of an ad for Discourse instead of a real conversation. On that, I don't believe Jeff Atwood has a secret for creating a great community. Being there ever since he started writing, he just creates interesting things to write about. He then formed a large following and tried an endeavor at a Q&A forum and he brought his followers of his blog with him. Thats not a secret, just building what users want. With that, I believe Stackoverflow is slowing degrading with content. It seems more and more these days the questions are not getting answered. Which stops the Q&A from being successful...