Sounds kind of similar to Long Reads Sunday: a recap of the top crypto twitter convos of the week. The format is: (1 sentence commentary + link to tweet), and then many of those woven together to tell the larger “naratives” of the week. It’s actually quite good - if you’re into crypto twitter.
One thing, however, is that curating a theme or narrative is something that is done iteratively. As you read through you find things that fit a theme, add them to a list, then go through that pile of ideas to figure out the core ideas and weave them together into a cohesive story.
With Discourse, however, that’s a bit tricky because the quotes and things are 10X easier to manage within the Discourse editor. Maybe rather than having a weekly/monthly thing, we could just have a bunch of themes. Then when anyone sees something that relates to a theme, they could copy the quote and add it to the theme thread with a little explanation as to why it’s relevant. This would be more work than just reading, but it could increase cred so people might do it. It would also be a 24/7 live thing that evolves organically vs being managed by one person on a regular schedule.
I dunno… this would probably end up being quite messy, but overall something crowdsourced and “live” seems like an ideal design direction to be thinking in