[wp-forums] The Hacks subforum is useless

[mrmist]

On 19/04/2012 17:49, scribu wrote:
 > I'm referring to 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
 >

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.