Meet the new community! ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ♡

Hey! My name is Alex and I enjoy talking online very much.
There are plenty of places on the web to hang out with makers and startup folks.
But I do not like any of those.

After years of entrepreneurship, I earned that sense which helps me to realize what I dislike about this or that. And how it should work to satisfy me.

It turned out none of the existing ways of talking online satisfy me. Let be specific and see what is wrong with the existing online communities:

What I dislike in Reddit.
The Reddit community is toxic.
I can not just hop in when I got something cool or just want to babble. I also can not promote my own stuff. I understand that using public channels as private twitter turns any space into a junkyard. But I do not like such a hardcore way of moderation Reddit gives. I feel like a stranger there.
There must be some kind of compromise and I think I found it.

What I dislike in Indie Hackers.
I LOVE the community! IH gave so much fun, insights, friends, ideas, feedback, and support. I even started regular offline IH meetups to get deeper into the community.
But there is a problem with this website: it is the Reddit-style temporary feed board. The new topics will be forgotten after 24 hours. The discussions are designed to die.
Why? This is so unfair. What if I got something new to add on the next day? Or in 3 days? Or in 3 months?
I believe that a discussion should be able to last forever. By gaining meat, threads become more and more meaningful.

What I dislike on Facebook.
Facebook insanely drains my attention. I'm very sensitive to these red indicators and notifications. I do not want to consume content that I'm forced to consume.
I do not like the way Facebook does their business and as a part of my protest, I do not spend time there. Just no.

What I dislike in instant messengers.
An average discussion in messenger lasts for a few minutes. This is just not enough time to engage enough people and get various and deep answers.
Besides, a thread in messager is hardly searchable and not indexable by search engines (Google). Therefore, when you answer in Telegram, your reply will be seen by a couple of folks, when you make an answer in a website, your reply will be seen by hundreds of people. This gives you additional motivation to craft greater answers.

What I dislike in Quora.
People visit Quora for link-building or promotion, but not for talking. Meh.

What I dislike in Hacker News.
It is just not for everybody. They have their own community with own strict rules, tradition, and history. I just don't get it.
And yeah, HN is still the feed type board, just like Reddit and IH.

Thus, I felt like I need to build my own place to talk with makers, geeks, designers and startup folks.

So I made this: https://broadwise.org

It is an old school online forum flavored with modern technologies (kudos to Discourse).
We have dozens of categories to talk about including tech, news, marketing, personal growth, sales, SMM, e-sports many more. Such a structured form of forum is designed to host meaningful discussions full of insights and various opinions that keep coming eternally.

I believe people should be able to promote their blogs and products. Indie Hackers taught us that is OK to show off what you did and there is nothing embarrassing in this. Broadwise.org adopts this tolerant approach.
Thus, you can create a thread dedicated to your blog or product and do some activity in it: invite people to discuss the latest blog or engage the public with a cool poll about your new product feature. You will get attention and people will get fun.

So welcome guys! Let's make a big warm, beginners friendly, full of thoughtful discussions which will bring fun and help to us for many years.
I believe it is gonna be an awesome journey!

Project link: https://broadwise.org