Alex Snyder outlines DealerRefresh's public development roadmap and invites member feature requests, covering planned improvements like curated content landing pages, a consultant welcome page, search upgrades, and a vendor solutions library seeded with 1,000+ entries. Key discussion points include a member suggestion to use AI (like Claude) to alert high-value contributors when they can add insight to relevant threads, and a notable spike in bot traffic—over 16,000 simultaneous visitors—driven by AI crawlers scraping the site's 20-plus years of content. The thread reveals DealerRefresh is actively rebuilding its infrastructure, SEO structure, and community features while wrestling with how to implement AI-assisted tools without creating hard dependencies on them.
