“Three lower-cost options for running the EA Forum” by Sarah Cheng

During our recent team retreat, the CEA Online Team discussed the state of our various projects, what potential new projects we could spend our capacity on, and what data and M&E we could use to determine how to prioritize our time.

As part of our discussion about the state of the EA Forum, we considered a few ways we could run it at a lower cost. I thought others might be interested so I'm sharing a version here. I'd be curious to hear where people agree or disagree.

Note that this was primarily an exercise, and did not lead to us deciding to change our Forum strategy. However, we are currently evaluating how the Online Team will fit into CEA in the longer term, which may result in us prioritizing other projects over the EA Forum. I think "no new engineering work" is plausible given our small capacity, and [...]

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Outline:

(01:03) No new engineering work

(02:03) My take

(02:51) A bulletin board

(06:53) My take

(07:10) Shut down the EA Forum and use the r/EffectiveAltruism subreddit

(09:57) My take

(10:26) Appendix: What does the Online Team do?

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First published:
May 16th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bZ4GAcc5kvgCvFwXs/three-lower-cost-options-for-running-the-ea-forum

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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