“What are we doing about the EA Forum? (Jan 2025)” by Sarah Cheng

This post is my personal perspective. I’m sure that my colleagues on the Forum Team and at CEA disagree with parts of this. However, since I am the Interim EA Forum Project Lead, I recognize that my opinions and beliefs carry extra weight. I’m very happy to receive feedback and push back from others, since I believe that my decisions matter a fair amount. You’re welcome to reply to this post, DM me, find me at EAG Bay Area, contact our team, or leave our team anonymous feedback here. When I took the role of Interim EA Forum Project Lead in late August 2024, I spent some time investigating where the Forum was at and thinking about what (if anything) our team should prioritize working on. Over the course of 2024 (and indeed, since early 2023), Forum usage metrics have steadily gone down[1]. My subjective opinion was that the [...] ---Outline:(01:21) The Forum Team as community builders(05:41) What does the best version of the Forum community  look like?(07:23) We're not there yet(09:50) What is the Forum Team doing?(12:01) What are we not doing?(13:00) How you can help(14:31) Appendix: The value of the ForumThe original text contained 27 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 1 image which was described by AI. --- First published: January 13th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wpDGEXjAtHJa2eCFA/what-are-we-doing-about-the-ea-forum-jan-2025 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.