Needpedia isn't user friendly enough

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Needpedia is a relatively complicated site. It has numerous sections that could be their own, separate websites.   So it's extremely important that we develop more ways for people to visualize or otherwise understand the site. 

In a sense, each 'subject' post, and all related 'problem' and 'idea' posts, represents a single data tree. So they're not that hard to visualize in principle, but it gets complicated by the fact that so many of these pages will interlink. -So, the moment an 'idea' post gets lots of attention, people are going to want to discuss problems with it, and ideas for those. Which means they'll need to make a 'subject' post. Which means there'll be two versions of the same post. -The original, an 'idea' post, which then got popular enough to also get its own 'subject' post.

As complicated as this sounds it's actually really simple to imagine. If you're looking at problems in your city, and you share an idea people really like, they'll want to work on it, so they'll make a 'subject' post for it to break it down into finer detail. Also the 'idea' and 'subject' posts should contain links to each other.

In the data tree metaphor, you could think of this as a tree dropping seeds and creating forest-wide webs. It's just that making anything with that that can truly help new users navigate the site or understand how to use it, is extremely challenging. But we're always free to create a 'subject' post for it and work on it in greater detail. That's what's so great about Needpedia, there's practically infinite room for people to share ideas for anything. Even if it's an idea for a problem with an idea, for a problem with an idea You could theoretically use this to work on a fusion reactor, there's virtually unlimited space for complexity. 

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