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>>jjcm+(OP)
The use of tags vs discrete communities keeps it from being a viable alternative to Reddit for me.

I have a real disdain for tags for user generated content. Every site I have seen use tags I end up having to wade through a ton of spam or vaugly related content to whatever tag I am looking for. The only exception I can think of is Hashtags for twitter but that is due to the character limit.

I understand that people see tages as a solution to crossposting but I think people overlook the benefits of crossposting. Being able to have seperate conversations on AI art in an art community vs programming community is more useful to me than having a single post that both communities comment on.

>>bardak+rP
I think having a single "sub" in the beginning is fundamental int he beginning. Otherwise you just have dozens of sub-forums that are ghost towns. Eventually moving to discreet sub-forums when traffic increases seems like a reasonable compromise.

>>lopis+5g3
But that would mean that initially, I have to wade through all kinds of worthless annoying stuff. I suspect it will be 40% politics, 30% sportsball, 20% Kardashians, 9% car culture, and 1% other. I'm going to give up before we ever get to sub-forums.