Well.. it is interesting that you are the first person in the community that I met with after taking the job!

I think my word choice that you pulled out of the video is perfect. Very intentional.

A problem I run into all the time is the difference between clarity and accuracy. It's definitely not accurate to say we want to compete with or replace wikipedia.

But it's also not very clear to explain what we want to do without comparisons or with that many caveats.

I can confirm that I still want to do this. I think to do it well starts with rethinking our tag pages. I requested and saw designs I liked for a better algorithmically generated tag page that was more focused on being a portal to the topic rather than a feed of recently published posts.

Sometimes we are hesitant to design things that rely on the work of humans, which is ironic given that the meat of the site is the work of humans. So I would still like to do more design work to explore tag pages that were human curated and edited portals to Medium's coverage of a topic.

I would expect that we will probably move forward with the algorithmic approach and then make them more human over time.

Also, thank you for reminding me of that Twitter thread and Ali's comment. He was a big cheerleader for me taking this job and got on the phone with me several times just to pump me up for my interviews.