Scaling Intimacy

What would it take for large online communities to feel intimate?

Maybe: a community forum without a feed—a place to record an idea or experience, send it to all and only your peers who would care about it, and find, immediately, the most relevant thoughts from the rest of your community.

Such a portal would make a few things possible:Frequent connections. Connections between people who’ve dealt with the same problems—the kind that, in the status quo, happen only rarely—would happen routinely.Vulnerable discussion. Community members would be able to connect through thoughts that, previously, they would have wanted to share but not t... See more