As a concrete example to think about: suppose there were a highly visible “related” sidebar on every content page. Related questions, related posts, what have you. (Not necessarily advocating this, it’s just something concrete to think around.)
This wouldn’t be mutually exclusive with the main home page, or any other centralized discovery page. It could become more important over time, as people click on things out of curiosity. People wouldn’t need to learn a new navigation habit all at once; it could just happen organically. Indeed, it would probably be pretty minor at first, until the recommendation algorithm got sorted out.
Any method of making links in posts/questions more actionable would serve a similar role—e.g. that preview thing wikipedia has when you hover over a link.
Yeah, each of those are things that are in the pipeline, and maybe they’ll just be sufficient. I guess I’m just worried they won’t be enough, but maybe they’ll incrementally improve this sort of thing at roughly the same rate that question volume goes up.
As a concrete example to think about: suppose there were a highly visible “related” sidebar on every content page. Related questions, related posts, what have you. (Not necessarily advocating this, it’s just something concrete to think around.)
This wouldn’t be mutually exclusive with the main home page, or any other centralized discovery page. It could become more important over time, as people click on things out of curiosity. People wouldn’t need to learn a new navigation habit all at once; it could just happen organically. Indeed, it would probably be pretty minor at first, until the recommendation algorithm got sorted out.
Any method of making links in posts/questions more actionable would serve a similar role—e.g. that preview thing wikipedia has when you hover over a link.
Yeah, each of those are things that are in the pipeline, and maybe they’ll just be sufficient. I guess I’m just worried they won’t be enough, but maybe they’ll incrementally improve this sort of thing at roughly the same rate that question volume goes up.