… to encourage participation. Or not, to keep this part of the site de-emphasised in favour of our (higher quality-standard) main site.
I'm not passionate either way but on balance I don't think we should be trying to push Discussion area content forward.
We could have discussion feed widgets as an option for logged in users, but not show them by default.
After contributions from a number of us (by random example here, here) over a number of months, particularly User:wmoore and User:tommccabe (and all happening before User:Yvain's work here, so we missed those ideas) we have a discussion area.
Discussion, including discussion of the discussion area, is welcome.