1. It needs categories. I don't feel motivated to read most of the conversations but if those were related to my interest i definitely would.
2. users should be able to add some bios, who are these people.
3. where it says you can start a conversation there could be a list of experts in my category i can send the question to, not popular people but people who have posted a lot in that category. this can be quora without the spam!
1. We're certainly looking into this, and other approaches to content discovery.
2. You can already add bios! Go to to your user page (link in the top-right), and it should be clear how to add a bio.
3. Thanks for the suggestion, we'll definitely think about this more.
IIRC Discourse started without categories. The whole "bucket of messages" shebang. It did not go well, in the sense that I believe people kept asking for categories.
There's something special about a curated list of folders to slot messages into, that tags and labels don't quite capture.
I prefer to look at it as "each person is interested in different things, and they mostly don't overlap with any other one person, statistically".