[wp-forums] The Hacks subforum is useless

[Michael Bishop]

Agreed on rename, and could be seen as an opportunity to recruit more "dev"
types to assist in the forums.

/me heads off to answer a few questions and eat my own dog food.

~miklb

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com>wrote:

> 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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