If we create our own website, it shouldn't use Reddit's software. It just sucks. We should use a more traditional software, like Discourse, SMF, or vBulletin/Xenforo.

Maybe I'm used to those kinds of forums, but I think they're better for building communities. Reddit was designed as a link aggregator, and while it's possible to have close-knit communities and political discussion...it's hard. Threads are very short-lived, the way comments are threaded is kind of fucked, and there's little room for intra-community off-topic banter.

And the upvote/downvote system is lame.

We can build a community using Reddit's software. We could have a subanarcho like /a/Anarchism and then /a/OffTopic, but that's...just silly. Why not just use SMF or something?

Also, I don't think we should be making an anarchist community. I would love to see a general leftist forum that doesn't turn into another RevLeft, /r/socialism, or /leftypol/, where either the moderators are shitty or it's viewed as being biased towards a particular ideology.

I generally don't want this to fail and wind up being another tiny leftist community with about a thousand members. The Left is really atomized on the Internet. We need a home.