You’re right! I always forget they should be opt-in. I think last year we were talking about requiring topics to reach 10k sats to get created. I think we also considered requiring that to be 10k monthly to keep it alive.

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Also interested in subs- do worry about dilutive effect on community.. might over-complicate things logistically but I wonder if there's a way to vote (in sats of course) them into existence to see what might have the most engagement rather than creating a bunch of mini-subs with zero community.  

Indiehackers (although the community has little real engagement and seems to be dominated by all self-promotion) has a ["groups" feature](https://www.indiehackers.com/groups) where the proposed group does not launch until a certain number of people join the group.

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I think within a year we'll be on track to begin adding topic subs. Right now though, the community is growing but still small and is better for now being focused IMO. 