choupolo


The comments below the article serve as an important, quick way of getting heard or seeing what people have to say, and will attract new users.  But its not easy to keep track of what you've said this way.  You have to go into each article to follow up what you posted, the articles move or disappear as new articles appear.  Plus you may want to hide many of them to avoid bloating the article as Joe said.

The forums can archive these comments in one easy to browse section.  And will allow for it to be more apparent how much activity is going on on the site, rather than having all the comments being separate and hidden within the articles. And people can make other threads as they please to build on that.

For example, I've seen a number of new users commenting directly onto the articles recently who wouldn't have come into the forum to do the same.   The same posts/threads available to browse in the forum lists would then be easy to see and reply to - attracting the other people who wouldn't have otherwise made a new thread.

Growth is then exponential - or at least a little bit.

Joe Redifer


I think Adam was talking about Wordpress (which I am not familiar with).

But yeah, starting a new thread about a new article (with a URL pointing to said article) and then immediately updating the end of the article with the URL of the new thread would be pretty easy.  I don't know of any way to automate that.

Nitro


I wouldn't say it was dead. It's more like a coma.