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Hi @alexhillman!

I’m very excited to see the progress!

A couple of observations so far:

  • The invited folks are granted ‘regular’ status and are allowed to invite others. Not sure if this is intentional or not. Maybe be a nice way to get friends of friends involved and create another funnel. You may want to check that invites of invites don’t end up in the 30x500 students group. See discussion from Discourse Meta thread.

You may or may not want to consider mirroring the categories from Slack to something like:

  • 30x500: Book Club
  • 30x500: Ebombs Away
  • 30x500: Introductions
  • 30x500: Launch Prep
  • 30x500: Pitch Critique
  • 30x500: Products
  • 30x500: Succes Stories
  • 30x500: Products And Tools
  • 30x500: Watering Holes
  • Just Fucking Ship: xxx
  • Just Fucking Ship: yyy
  • Site Feedback & Help

or, perhaps, mirror 30x500 Canvas to facilitate the discussions? That way you can easily map who gets access to what and within categories, you could have a pinned topics about stuff you get asked about most often, e.g. in Watering Holes, have a pinned post: “Practice Painstorming” with links to threads people could use to practice.

For inspiration, consider places that use Discourse effectively, such as Docker community or folks at Big Nerd Ranch, or Twitter community.

Great to see progress happening!

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Love the enthusiasm @posiczko!

For now this is going to stay invite only and just for 30x500 students, but down the road I def see opening up semi-private and public areas for people putting our other products into action and over time a wider, public community. One step at a time though :wink:

For new categories, I’m also thinking that it’ll be better to add more categories as we actually find ways to use them rather than end up with a bunch of empty categories that don’t get enough action. We will need to figure out where the line is between the forum and slack - but I’m excited that discourse has a nice slack integration that we can use to save valuable convos before they disappear!

Don’t let my slow roll discourage you from spotting and suggesting idea. I think the answer to all is “yes - just not yet!”

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