The forum has more and more contribution. Almost none of it cumulates into insight the movement can use together.
LMS Forums Are Broken - Article from Pathwright
The moment a lecture turns to asking questions, exploring answers, critiquing, expanding, etc. is usually when the most engaged learning happens.
What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.
atBB Community Forum — atBB Forum
Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol
Foreword This statement was originally published on the swicg/general repository after I had been granted approval to merge. Since then one community member has raised that it did not follow the Community Group's processes, and consequently the document has been taken down from the original location. When publishing,
The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
Claude carries memory into work - Sensemaker
Chat and cloud Cowork now share remembered topics; continuity improves, but so can the reach of a mistake.
Wikum: Bridging Discussion Forums and Wikis Using Recursive Summarization
Large-scale discussions between many participants abound on the internet today, on topics ranging from political arguments to group coordination. But as these discussions grow to tens of thousands of posts, they become ever more difficult for a reader to digest. In this article, we describe a workflow called recursive summarization, implemented in our Wikum prototype, that enables a large population of readers or editors to work in small doses to refine out the main points of the discussion. More than just a single summary, our workflow produces a summary tree that enables a reader to explore distinct subtopics at multiple levels of detail based on their interests. We describe lab evaluations showing that (i) Wikum can be used more effectively than a control to quickly construct a summary tree and (ii) the summary tree is more effective than the original discussion in helping readers identify and explore the main topics.
The Discourse Encouragement Fund
News about about the next-generation open source Discourse forum software.
Permissioned Data Shapes: Forums - Nick's Blog
A forum with public categories, private categories, and one set of record shapes across both: members own their posts, the forum owns the submission wrappers that admit them into categories, and moderators deactivate into tombstones instead of deleting.
Forum Design Research
As some may have noticed there are efforts to improve the support forums on WordPress.org. In addition to the backend changes, this seems like a good time to make some design upgrades as well. To k…
It’s Like Reddit, Without the Trolls
Imzy, started by two former Reddit employees, wants to be a kinder, gentler version of the controversial discussion site.
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News
Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?
new: Blacksky People’s Assembly conversations display embedded inside posts on blacksky.community In our next conversation, you’ll be able to vote on People's Assembly topics while scrolling the feed and without leaving our app. 🗳️
Finally had a sec to write about the conversation component we added to the @atproto.com blog.
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