A lot of communities seem fond to do what CommunityOfSweden has done.

They waste valuable space with unncessary copy targeted at newcomers. 

This is especially painful when the categories are intuitive and self-descriptive. 

There are broadly five approaches to developing a community platform.

1) The perfect community platform. This approach uses the wealth of information about online communities to develop the perfect design. This is the approach taken by most enterprise platform providers. 

2) The needs-driven community platform. This approach assess the needs of the target audience and develops the community to those specifications. A...