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  • It feels like they tried to do that with discussions. And then got surprised when that didn't work. But attributed it to not being the main site rather than intrinsic in the concept. Commented Oct 12, 2025 at 1:28
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    They seem to be trying to transfer the popularity of the current site to a new site. The problem being that they don't seem to have come up with a reason why people who like the current site would want to switch. It would be far easier to attract the kind of people that they want from scratch, as Reddit and Discord have, rather than to transform this site. Perhaps they're trying to copy Quora. However, Quora did not transfer its existing experts to their new site. Quora's community has mostly left and been replaced with AI. Commented Oct 12, 2025 at 1:55
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    I don't necessarily agree with you that the community has no reason to stay if they transform the whole site (at least if you broadly construe "community" to mean "whole userbase" rather than just us... enthusiasts, here on Meta), but I very much do agree that the company seems very intent on pushing on the accepted content boundaries and scope of the site without actually... talking about doing that. I feel pretty strongly that real transparency means having actual discussions about shifting site scopes and norms... but we've had almost none of those conversations. It bugs me a lot. Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 17:15
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    It's probably too optimistic, but I genuinely feel like things would be more amicable between Meta and the company if they just came out and said something like "hey, we feel like comments are important and facilitate healthy engagement on the site. We understand that's a departure from site norms, but we're moving in this direction"... because at least then there's actual material to discuss. As-is, we're in this limbo of knowing but not really, left guessing at direction; and it's left a lot of room for accusations and beliefs of malice to creep in, which heavily degrades communication. Commented Oct 13, 2025 at 17:18