Do any of the solutions I've personally suggested or mentioned here in this thread seem reasonable to you though? I was hoping we could at least talk about trade offs or pitfalls of various things people have suggested.

I feel like maybe I screwed up here with the thread since it got flagged early on for having Ask HN in it, and people responded with a knee-jerk reaction going straight to the comments section. Not sure if it's possible to get a mod to rename this and remove the Ask HN, I originally tried to paste in my content directly into the self-post textbox but 9k chars exceeded 2k chars.