Articles published here are soon drowned in the sheer amount of new material. It doesn't mean that they are not interesting any longer, just that they disappear from view. It is also difficult to find posts about specific topics without digging through a huge amount of texts about other things, things that may not even interest you. It just takes too much time.
The categories for posting are so limited that the system is useless except for very clearly niched articles in those few niches the categories cover. The tagging system is used inconsistently, it is likewise chaotic. The only way to try to create some order is to use communities creatively. It is done to an extent, but not at all as much and systematic as it could be.
First it should be noted that anyone can create a community. But try to limit its topic clearly and don't accept too many posts so the community just becomes a mini-version of read.cash itself, with a huge number of unrelated or vaguely related articles, chaotically presented, that nobody cares to screen through anyway.
We also need a way to remove empty communities, that is communities without articles. It could be done automatically when a community has been empty for - say - a month. But there should also be the option for the creator of a community to simply delete it.
If you join a community, it is because you are a reader of the community's material. So, if you are interested in the topic of a community, join it. Then you can look in now and then to see if something new interesting has turned up. Perhaps you subscribe to the authors you like, but you will soon see that the notices you receive when they publish something new, risk to disappear in a total mess of notices about everything. Now and then looking in to the communities of your choice is a way to ensure that you have not missed anything you really are interested in. But expect the number of communities to grow, so the list of communities will soon be long and cumbersome to read or find anything in. In order to find them easily, it's best to become a member of communities to which you want to return.
As an author, you can always submit articles to communities of your choice. The moderator can admit or reject as he or she chooses. You should not be discouraged by a rejection; the creator of the community has set standards and borderlines, somehow your article fell outside what the community aims for. It doesn't necessarily mean that your article was bad, just that it doesn't fit into that community or its style, according to the standards set by community creator/moderator. And I say it again; communities need to aim at clear and strictly held borderlines in order not to accept too much material. I don't mean that a community consisting of 2-3 articles is ideal, it is not – but it should not allow itself to become overgrown, chaotic and messy. If it does, it is time to divide it into two or more communities.
Communities, if used wisely, could be the tool to get order in the continuously increasing amount of material here. And some order is needed, if nothing else, so to attract readers to read.cash.
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It is good that the communities have been created on the platform, because things are simplified, you are looking for articles to read in an easier way, keep writing.