Why use Yoomoot?

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Anything you write on a web forum is quickly buried by other posts and forgotten about. They waste your time. Writing a blog isn’t much better; unless you’re a celebrity you’re never going to get more than a handful of readers. Why isolate yourself from the collective mind by writing on a lonely isolated blog?

yoomoot resolves these problems and all the other problems of online discussions. Because we’re a wiki we’re constantly organizing and improving existing content. Because we restrict replies to questions and answers, every thought is neatly organized and easy to find. Because we have a ‘discussion overview’ mode, we can encompass massive debates in an organized way.

In summary: If you’re happy to have discussions that disappear as soon as they’re begun, use one of the thousands of other discussion sites out there. If you want to have a discussion that is useful to other people, and which actually makes progress, use Yoomoot.

Finally, the more people who join Yoomoot, the closer we get to developing and spreading a plugin for handling discussions on other sites in the Yoomoot format. By joining now you will have the opportunity to steer the future direction of Yoomoot.

More about Yoomoot's features

Order without authority: How Yoomoot makes long and complex discussions navigable  

Concision enthroned: How Yoomoot keeps discussions trim

Standing on the shoulders of crowds: How Yoomoot turns discussions into ever-improving information resources

One moot to rule them all: How Yoomoot merges wikis, forums, comments, blogs and bookmarks into a single format

The collaborative inbox: How Yoomoot makes it easy to keep track of updates and discover relevant new content

yoomoot's razor: How Yoomoot keeps discussions sharp and focused

Please, no more YouTube comments! or How Yoomoot reconciles free speech with politeness  


More about Yoomoot's uses

How to use Yoomoot  

Direct democracy without slaves and the messy conversations that get in the way  

Collaborative essays: Yoomoot for education

Time-wasting is the project-killer: Use Yoomoot to make your group goal-oriented and time-efficient

Ending the web citizen's dilemma: blogging and commenting at the same time