[tcdent]

Pretty interesting that the daily post volume has plateaued.

Personally, I'm glad the growth has been curbed. Too bad we can go back to the good ol' days.

[protomyth]

It seems the trend with everything, people want to close the door behind them. They should have only allowed 16-bits of user ids on slashdot.

[icefox]

In a way reddit is the ultimate model. When the main room gets to big you can go and make a new room (subreddits), but still in the same house where everyone else is. Brilliant model in my opinion and one that I believe will be followed by successful future discussion board systems in years to come.

[mjn]

An in-between option is the http://lobste.rs model of having tags on stories, and letting users filter on tags. Allows me to ignore a few topics I just don't care about, without really splitting the community (some of the community opts-out of a few topics here and there, but it's by and large one community).