Why The Cellar?

[Undertoad]

Regarding CitizenX - I never saw it before this reference, but a dead commercially-created community is not a surprise. I believe it's very difficult in our current climate for a commercial enterprise to develop a community. Non-profits, that I'll buy, but a for-profit company has to serve a higher master than the community, and that will always be the case.

Web sites want to be huge "destinations" - or at least all their owners want them to become such. But the economics of the web doesn't reward that. A site becomes big, all it means is that it needs more bandwidth and more horsepower. Instead, I wish there were 10,000 Cellars for people to choose from. General-interest forums where you can talk to anyone about anything. As it is, Usenet and the web have conspired somehow to sway forums towards specific interests in order to remain small.

There is one thing about K5 that I would like to implement, and that is community voting on the IotD. I hope to do that sometime this month.