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Great that you are exploring new concepts.

I think you could highlight categories better on the homepage.

Don't add user votes to the dialogues. We know what happens to politics category after you do that.

But, add some user interactions like following a dialogue to receive updates about it. And also following a contributor to receive update about his/her dialogues.

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Yes, that would be great! One of our most important short-run goals is to figure out how to increase user engagement. Allowing users to follow dialogues/contributors is definitely one way to do that.

Comment sections are another idea we've had; however, we've noticed that most comment sections tend to degrade quickly. Substack is doing better with a pay-to-comment model, but still, I think we're going to stay away for the time being.

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