I started this forum in early 2003, before Facebook existed. At its peak it had thousands of active users, joint live events with the Ayn Rand Institute, live chat, email services, and city-specific chapters.
Facebook drained that away. Activity has been a trickle for about ten years.
The forum still gets ~100 visitors a day from Google Search, and I don’t use that traffic well. So here’s the plan:
- Migrate from Invision Board to Discourse. It’s open source, so I can build on it.
- Deeply integrate https://wiki.objectivismonline.com/ into forum pages — each thread will link to relevant Wiki answers, matched by AI.
- Keep enhancing the Wiki, which was rewritten in the past few days. It cites original sources from a collection of Ayn Rand and Leonard Peikoff’s works.
- Possibly integrate http://peikofflibrary.com/ and https://freecapitalists.org/, which I also host.
Priority one is capturing search traffic. Then figure out how to convert visitors into posters.
Open to ideas for additional features.
