letting anyone create their own subs, and the requiring a small monthly fee to be paid by sub creators.

the sub creators would also earn a portion of all post, comment, boost, and zap fees which would incentivize sub creators to create thriving communities.

Some more subs could be introduced, in addition to "bitcoin" and "nostr".

I think in general SN is ok like it is. Much much better than reddit and other BS.

A section that gives users the ability to send a nostr event/post

Have Stacker News be an email address as well, like nostrfreaks or nostrplebs

Honestly it just needs more content, very happy with it today but it's not something I can infinitely scroll yet.

For me the most important thing are NON bitcoin talk increasing, like on Nostr. That's how we'll grow in a sane way and don't become some kind of nerd bubble

Any topics, talk about food about war about politics about sports anything you want. Sad thing is 95% of sats go bitcoin related, once it becomes homogeneous will be amazing progress.

colored hats showing the user's level of generosity

Better approach for handling decay.

Quite often a post or article goes six or eight hours before getting a single upvote, especially those posted at like midnight (American time). But then when the majority of SN users come online, say from 6am to noon, Eastern (U.S.) time, the new posts will get upvoted and the post that never got any upvotes at midnight will never make it to the front page, even though it gets just as much love (upvotes, tips) from those waking up and checking SN, 6am to noon.

So there's essentially a penalty for posting in the late evening, and very early morning hours (Eastern time). I'ld like to see decay modified so as to not penalize these articles that were barely noticed overnight.

enable downvoting, but you gotta pay double the sats

No AI.

Perhaps it is worth breaking into subs, such as "news", "articles". Now, although they have made a division by topic, they are still in the same pile and it is more difficult to find good content. Links to resources and articles within SN are jumbled together.

Remove the stupid tldr bot and hn bot. Bots are useless idiots that only create spam.

An "other" tag where people can put content that isn't necessarily bitcoin or nostr related/focused.

Ability to post as anonymous (doesn't show to average user who posted comment), with persistent hash instead of nick per thread (4chan style). Anon posts either shouldn't be able to receive sats, or sats should be handled on SN server side.

A bit more padding, bigger font size, and gentler dark mode colors.

(I'm getting old, and I frequently read in poorly lit places -- you know, the underground market, etc.)

follow / block users so that I can customise my feed.

Meh I bearly come here

I'd love a Craigslist sectionals type tab for Bitcoiners to meet up in real life and do P2P transactions & barter.

An events sub.