💬 Front Porch Forum is the friendliest social network you’ve never heard of — WaPo

It has achieved critical mass in the Green Mountain State not by embracing the growth hacks, recommendation algorithms and dopamine-inducing features that power most social networks, but by eschewing them.

This is very cool and inspiring. I’ve been thinking a lot about adding comments to TIV and foofaraw as a place for slow, light conversation around media and the news, but a) I feel like it’d end up a barren wasteland and b) not sure about the best way to implement.