This document discusses optimizing community platforms by focusing on 5 key areas: 1. Changing the homepage to focus on searchability and categorization. 2. Building reminders to teach civility and set behavioral norms for discussions. 3. Optimizing the platform for reading by making content easy to navigate and rewarding reading. 4. Empowering regular community members to moderate through participation, common features, and avoiding problems. 5. Providing tools for staying on topic, such as related conversations, to avoid misleading links and off-topic discussions.