First of all - congrat guys!
Gitter is great, but it's bad if you need to search to find something that maybe someone else already asked... So, is there any chance that you open some kind of thread based forum?
Yes. Absolutely. We plan a full thread-based forum, integrated directly into our docs and other areas of the site. We're even going to build the front-end in Aurelia (with an off the shelf backend).