Re: sub-reddits
Scott updates the community on subreddit investigation, explaining that Tricycle proposes using Discussion tags instead, though he's not entirely convinced.
A while back, I polled the community on the possibility of subreddits. Most people said they wanted them, and I said I'd investigate.
I talked to a couple of people and eventually ended up talking to Tricycle, the developers of this site. They told me about their own proposed solution to the community organization problem, which is this new Discussion section. They said that searching the discussion section by tag was equivalent to a sub-reddit. For example, if you want a sub-reddit on consciousness, the discussion consciousness tag search is an amazing imitation
I told them I wasn't entirely convinced by this and sent some reasons why, but I haven't heard back from them lately and I'm not going keep pursuing this and make a big deal of it unless a large percentage of the people who wanted sub-reddits are unsatisfied.