Built a custom space template for our hobby niche

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.