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This is cool, I'm curious to see how the experiment will turn out!

I've thought about bringing up this kind of thing before. It's neat that the CD team had the same idea, and even developed it more! :) I ended up not posting it because I had some doubts.

Given that reacting to a post is a very low effort action, I think it's inevitable that it will **overestimate** how much activity there would be if the site is created. For example, some people who are interested may have indicated interest a year ago, and stopped browsing the site 6 months ago.

Since we have the Incubator, I think that's a much better gauge of real interest. It's also more direct, since interest is expressed by actually creating realistic content rather than merely promising to do so.

But now that I think about it, I can see how one might find it less exciting to post in the incubator rather than a full site, since the latter implies a better visibility and more focused userbase. So the incubator is not perfect either, it is more of an **underestimate**.

So we will now have one indicator that is optimistic (the reactions) and one that is pessimistic (the incubator posts) - that actually sounds pretty good for trying to gauge true interest!