Dium research team
The people at TAO.ai who build Dium. We sign posts as a team, not as individuals.
113posts published
6categories covered
March 2026first post
May 2026latest post
About this byline
Dium is a Q&A and knowledge platform for cohorts, conferences and teams, built by TAO.ai. Posts on this blog carry a team byline because they draw on the work of the people who design, build and support the product.
How we write
- Posts explain patterns we see in community software: how questions get answered, how live sessions turn into lasting knowledge, and how moderation scales.
- When a post mentions how Dium works, the Help center and changelog are the source of truth for what is live today.
- Each post shows the date it was published and the date it was last updated.
- Spot a mistake? Email [email protected] and we will correct it and update the date.
Topics
Operating model, Events and lobbies, Comparisons, Local-first and P2P, Trust and health, Verticals.
All posts by the team
- Operating modelThe 5 Threads That Make Up Every Modern Community
- Events and lobbiesThe 'Event Pulse': the 7 Signals Every Lobby Home Should Surface
- Local-first and P2PThe Community Platform as a Local-First App
- Events and lobbiesSponsor Booths That Convert: a 12-Element Spec You Can Copy
- Local-first and P2PWhy Your File-Sharing UX Should Default to 'Never Touched Our Servers'
- Local-first and P2PThe 5-Step Bootstrap Flow: From asq.php to a Hydrated SPA in <800ms
- Local-first and P2PWhy IndexedDB Is a Cache, Not a Trust Boundary, and the Bug That Taught Us
- Events and lobbiesThe 7 Ways to RSVP, and Why 5 of Them Are Bad for Engagement
- Trust and healthThe Community Health Scorecard: 12 Metrics, With Formulas
- Local-first and P2POptimistic UI for Community Posting: the 4 Conflict Cases Nobody Handles
- Trust and healthWhy Your Community Needs Three Suspension States, Not One
- Local-first and P2PCSP, SRI, and Nonce-Based Scripts for a Remotely-Loaded Community SPA
- Local-first and P2PThe 6-Table Schema Behind Every Modern Wave-Based Community
- Trust and healthThe 'Comparison Page' That Cite-Bait Works On
- Operating modelThe AMA Operator's Pre-flight Checklist
- Operating modelThe Help-Thread Triage Matrix
- Events and lobbiesThe Sponsor Booth Buildout Checklist (37 Items)
- Operating modelThe 'Channel' Is the Worst UI Primitive of the Last Decade
- Operating modelAMAs Are Dying Because Reddit Treated Them as Marketing
- Trust and healthWhy Every Community Should Ship a 'Leaving' Workflow
- Local-first and P2PThe Notification Taxonomy: 4 Urgency Tiers and the Wake-Up Rule
- Local-first and P2PDigest Emails That Don't Get Muted: the 7-Block Layout
- Local-first and P2PQuiet Hours, Timezone-Aware Scheduling, and the 1-Tap RSVP From Email
- Events and lobbiesA Community 'For You' Feed in 12 Lines of SQL
- Events and lobbiesSemantic vs Keyword Search for Forums: When Each Wins
- Operating modelInteractive: 'Build Your Community in 60 Seconds'
- Local-first and P2PAnimated Explainer: 'How a P2P File Transfer Actually Works in Your Browser'
- Operating model'Wave Type' Poster (Printable PDF)
- Events and lobbiesLive Demo Embed: 'Drop in to a Sample Dium Lobby'
- Local-first and P2P'The Forum Architecture Map' Poster (24x36, Downloadable)
- Trust and healthOpen Dataset: 100 Anonymized Wave Threads (CSV) for Researchers