Ok, I’ve tried to do a bit more setup and explanation by:
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Adding globally-pinned welcome post describing the point of the site and the guidelines for participation.
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Starting introductions off on that post and prompting others to join.
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Customizing the very brief description of each category via their initial system-created topics: General and Help and Getting Started. The content of these posts appears in several places where categories are listed (for example) and should be very short. I’ve “unlisted” these special adminstrative topics to reduce clutter in the topic list.
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Adding pinned topics to each category with longer descriptions: General and Help and Getting Started.
Happy to make further tweaks or see tweaks made. I’m still getting a feel for the particulars of Discourse.
Is this enough to start?