Ideas pop up, get posted on Discord or mentioned offhandedly in a meeting, people get excited about them, and they eventually fade away. Discord is great at a lot of things, but it really sucks as a historical archive. Roam Notes are great for taking meeting notes and keeping track of action items and future agenda items week to week, but they’re editable by everyone and organized chaotically for anything that isn’t something like a meeting note. We have docs all over the place, doing their functions pretty well, whatever they may be. What we don’t have is a good central repository for ideas to coexist in their own little threads long-term, maintain integrity (not be fully editable), get discussed, and eventually maybe even be concretely worked on.
Just kidding! We have this Discourse! It’s incredibly under-utilized and I think it’s a shame. There’s a precedent that has been set that a Discourse post is a Serious Thing. They’re often mini-Medium posts (or, just Medium posts maybe??)! That’s cool, but a historical record isn’t just for announcements and big, important proposals.
Let’s change this up. Let’s put up ideas, musings, what ifs, thought experiments, feature proposals, whatever, even if they’re messy. Let’s talk about them! Let’s make categories for them, so if someone does want to use this forum as a bit of an announcement board, they can filter for that. Let’s get weird with it, y’all.
So anyway, that’s my messy meta-idea. What do you think?