You are totally right, but I really wanted to make it very clean and organized ui wise and I felt limited by the reddit form. Also, I like the idea of crowdsourcing and having people be able to post, and they are absolutely welcome to in the sub reddit but for the site I just wanted to strictly control design elements and stylistic choices which is only possible when I'm the only who can post.

On the https://happydaze.io/contribute/ page I have a email where people can send me potential ideas/topics

Also here's the link to the subreddit : r/happydazenews