RE: chainBB's path forward - a discussion on revenue
I know that you've already made up your mind @jesta, but I'll give you my opinion regardless.
Now that I've been using chainBB for a bit I feel like 10 steem to register a forum might be too much. I've about 4 forums that I'd like to register. If it were 1 steem, I would've done so already, but 10 steem each is way too steep for me. Once you've a way to ignore forums (remove them from the mainpage, hide them or collapse them) the more forums the better. I don't think spammy forums will be a problem then, since you won't even see them once you hide/collapse them.
I'm sure there are people using chainBB that want to post something on a forum that does not yet exist and don't feel like creating the forum themselves. So what do they do? They don't create said post.
I think you should incentivize the creation of new forums, and 10 steem is not really doing that, in my opinion.
I can't disagree. I think for the time being it will remain unchanged, but you're right, encouraging creation should be the priority here, and eventually that'll probably be the route to go.
Once the product evolves more and there's a better homepage (like you mentioned) maybe I can revisit this.