[wp-forums] The Hacks subforum is useless

[Andrea Rennick]

If it was created to help people with code questions, then it should be
renamed. :)

my 5 Canadian cents,
a.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:39 PM, mrmist <listswpforum at mist.org.uk> wrote:

> On 19/04/2012 17:49, scribu wrote:
> > I'm referring to http://wordpress.org/support/**forum/hacks<http://wordpress.org/support/forum/hacks>
> >
> > If I remember correctly, it was created in an effort to replace the
> > wp-hackers mailing list. That doesn't seem to have worked out.
> >
>
> Not really, it was created to seperate out plugin *coding* from plugin
> *help*.  Code help was being drowned in the plugin forum by plugin help
> requests.
>
>
> > First of all, as you can see, there are almost no replies. Users post
> > questions and no one answers.
> >
>
> That much could be extrapolated across the whole forum, sadly.
>
>
> > Second of all, there is a huge overlap with
> > http://wordpress.org/support/**forum/how-to-and-**troubleshooting<http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting>
> >
>
> Not really, as the how-to is more about using Wordpress, hacks was for
> coding.
>
>
> > Therefore, I say it's time to kill it.
> >
>
> I'm not massively convinced that there's much benefit to killing it off.
>  Killing off hacks won't suddenly mean that the people posting there get
> replies in some other sub-forum.
>
> mrmist.
>
>
>
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