A POC front door for Discourse: quieter than raw latest activity, but still clearly anchored in forum categories and conversations.
A homepage should help people enter by purpose: what is new, what can I use, and where do I go next.
A digest-like cluster of upcoming DH opportunities pulled into one surface.
Recommendations, trust signals, troubleshooting, and real usage notes belong together.
These are not just subforums. They are the real information architecture of the site: where people go to discover work, opportunities, help, and discussion.
Open the forum and see what is happening right now.
Find what is coming up next without scanning multiple mailing lists.
Browse concrete work instead of abstract descriptions of the field.
Understand which tools are trusted and how people actually use them.
Keep up with scholarship without losing discussion context.
Find material you can directly use in teaching or research.
Start learning DH from curated paths rather than random links.
Check openings and calls from one place.
Ask for help or see how others solved the same problem.
Map the institutional landscape of the field.