You're advising a community product where each new user can create value for others through content, answers, follows, and interactions. Leadership wants a clear way to analyze growth beyond simple acquisition, especially when the product's value depends on the health of the network.
How do you think about network effects when analyzing growth for a community product?
How additional users create value for other usersWhether growth improves liquidity, matching, and content qualityHow retention differs across readers, askers, and answerersWhat metrics distinguish durable network effects from shallow traffic growth