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double rep point Fridays? (should please some posters)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Comics, Animated series, Films based Bob ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif)
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Could definitely do with better question moderation - a lot of the questions asked are barely (and often not) legible. StackOveflow seems to be more pro-active in this area; I'd like to see the same thing here 
E.g. How do I update with a msg while update..[^]
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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One thing that would definitely help here is to expand the pool of people who can edit/move/remove messages. The pool is a lot greater in QA than it is in the forums.
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I have proposed my humble contribution several times, but am still not wise enough for it 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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More people back in the programming forums. (I don't know how, just make it happen)
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Removing Q&A would achieve that!
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Why would it have that effect?
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Where do you think SA would head to boost his rep points?
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That other QA site perhaps, he'll fit right in.
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Newbies use Q/A section to post homework, send codez, urgentz type questions.
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Actually, Q&A killed the forums.
They used to be very active, now people want the quick gimme codez option so they aren't really used very much.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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But still I'm glad that forums not flooded with those type of questions
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The problem is the forums aren't flooded in any type of questions.
Do my homework style questions were fielded, and shot down. Newbie questions were asked, often these were shot down too - but less so than Q&A - and one person shooting down would be noticed a decent help often given.
The forums were much more self-policing: Let's say someone tried the "See my near identical answer" thing so prevalent in Q&A just didn't happen. This behaviour would have been called out, and very visibly (as opposed the need to open the specific question) in the forums. A lot of the worst aspects of the Q&A simply weren't tolerated in the forums.]
I'm not say the forums being active was a bed of roses - guilty of grouphthink and their were dingbats questions and answewrs, but the situation was (and is) much better there.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Okay, here's a thought for the articles. When an article is entered for a competition, it goes to a separate moderation queue rather than the main one. That way it's going to be a lot easier to prioritise your time reviewing articles.
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That would certainly help as the competition article often have different acceptable criteria.
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DaveAuld wrote: API
I believe it is being worked on. For at least 5 years to my knowledge.
If only they had a group of developers willing to volunteer their time to help the communi... oh, wait....
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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They could also host it in an open collaborative source repository, something like GitHub, maybe called it 'workspaces'....oh, wait 
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Why can't Q&A do a pop over/under to google with the title of the question entered as the search criteria.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Because the results set would be full of SO links
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It's grey I tell you NOT blonde!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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DaveAuld wrote: So with the sad demise of Workspaces and TV the question must be,
Sad? I thought both were rather useless, and workspaces was certainly annoying.
What I'd like to see is some improvements to the RSS feed. The "authors" field is blank, there's no way to distinguish between updates and new articles, nor articles vs. blog posts.
I'll be mentioning that in the suggestions forum at some point. 
Marc
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I suppose it is only sad if you used it and liked it, or if you were one of the devs that spent many hours developing it.
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DaveAuld wrote: I suppose it is only sad if you used it and liked it, or if you were one of the devs that spent many hours developing it.
Exactly, and I have great empathy for both users and those devs. It sucks when that happens. I do wonder why it didn't take off (though certainly I'm a contributor to the problem, as all of my recent articles have the source code hosted on GitHub.)
Marc
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