I was reminded of this thread with from another page I visit:
Macrumors.com. Its the main site for Apple fanboys (me
). They have been around a long time. I think I started visiting them in about the late 90's. They have a main page with new stories all the time. That is the main traffic driver to their site (I'm guessing). Those stories also get shared all over FB in the various Apple-centric groups.
The thing they do though, that might be worth copying here, is when they post those stories on the main site, they also post them in their forum (the admin does). And any comments people make on the story show up in the forum thread. I think it does a good job in helping to unite the main page with the forum page.