Fantastic perspective here @bryan
I was really hoping that some folks who have experience on other forums or have managed big projects of organization of content, would chime in here.
We’ll keep the conversation going and hope to have some additional ideas trickle in. Maybe we’ll both even come up with some NEW ideas!
The biggest conundrum I face as I’m developing these forums and laying out the framework, is the UX and for users being able to quickly and intuitively be able to find the things that may interest them.
One amazing thing with tags, in this forum is that if you visit the tags page, and click on one of them… you can hit the little BELL 
icon to choose a level of subscription/notifications for that specific tag! So someone could just follow the “blog” tag if they were interested. But again this goes back to that idea about being intuitive. 98% of users won’t know to do that… right out of the gate.
On another note, it would be cool if you checked out the thread Tagging Taxonomy for Pickleball Community Forums and offered any feedback you have there. You gave some good ideas for us to put on the drawing board as we’re laying out a tagging taxonomy for the community.
As I outlined in the What is Pickleballist? thread… THIS IS YOUR COMMUNITY!
Thanks for taking ownership here, Bryan, and helping contribute to the main thing that distinguishes these forums from yet another Facebook group… ORGANIZATION!