I'm working on developing a new community (currently in stealth mode) associated with a well-known publication. Please let me know what you would like in a community forum (Discourse based). We're #deplatforming and want to make a place where great discussions happen.
The discourse community is in desperate need of more plugin development I think. Maybe your forum can foster some discussion on plugins or some in a subcategory or something. Alternatively, it could be a subcategory to specifically discuss discourse, as I feel like there could probably be more places to do that. I just think discussion on discourse is probably shut down a little quickly on the actual forum and that organic discussion from HN-type posters might lead to something that could benefit discourse admins who are interested in more, I guess you could say creative? uses for discourse. Theres just a big hole where bots and category customization and feature toggling could be, and I feel like Im probably not the only discourse admin who thinks that.
Curious about this - could you give some detail about what would be useful? Not a huge discourse user myself... (I can be reached at mk@{my-hn-username}.com