[csallen]

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't written a blog post about it, but the TL;DR is that engagement and views are significantly higher than a year ago.

We've experimented with a variety of different homepages, including the old list of interviews, and also a mixed homepage that included the forum + interviews + podcast. Ultimately, there isn't one answer that works for everyone. However, I can say with confidence that more people get bored of reading interview after interview and stop coming back than is the case with the community forum. If I were to simply revert to the old IH, it wouldn't be long before there was another thread like this one, but with a different subset of people asking me to move the community back to the fore.

I think your question about the value of metrics is an important one. Why attempt to grow at all? My thinking on this is simple: as long as IH remains an inspirational and educational resource that's a net positive for those it reaches, then the world is better off if it reaches more people.

The risk of course is that growth involves change, and that change might be for the worse if we're not careful. This is something I think about constantly, and one of the reasons feedback threads like this one are helpful.