Programming Forum.

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Udel
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.

If you oversplit the forums, then no one goes in. Questions remain unanswered, and people find it useless to post there. Then they leave Anandtech and go to another forum where the questions are answered. Its happened in the past and it will happen again.

With combined forums, you get people in to read your thread who otherwise would never have clicked on that forum link. You get a wider variety of answers and get the answers more quickly. It is a good thing. The side effect of course is that you have to scroll past a few threads that you aren't interested in.

To understand me, take it to the extreme. Think of thousands of individual specialized forums for each type of thread. Who the hell has the time to read them all? No one. Thus no one will read your posts. Sure you aren't talking about such an extreme. But it goes to show that splitting it too much is a very bad idea.

Based on that, we shouldnt have them split up at all since that way everyone would see all the threads. Yet, most people interested in hardware dont care about stormrider being a virgin, and the YAGT addicts dont care to hear bush is a douche for the billionth time in P&N.

Along those lines, someone who has a question about programming C doesnt care about the latest weapons you unlocked in BF2 or what level your toon is in WoW. Nor does someone talking about the new AoE demo care about using post function in PHP.

They are clearly DISTINCT and popular categories that do not belong in the same forum.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
They are clearly DISTINCT and popular categories that do not belong in the same forum.

Yes. I'm glad you understand and agree with my logic. There is a fairly clear maximum number of forums that can be sustained. Exceed that number and the whole site is irreparably harmed. But, like you said, that maximum number is not 1.

 

[Sureshot324]

I would strongly support this. We have every possible category of hardware, but only one category of software (except operating systems). Software is arguably a much larger category than hardware. Just because this is more a hardware site, doesn't mean all we do is build computers and buy new hardware. IMO there should be a seperate programming forum and seperate games form.

 

[Sureshot324]

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[Udel]

We could work fun projects together. Well.. Those of us who spew out code for fun can.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Udel
Atleast combine Highly Technical, with Programming. Progamming is a pretty focused way of thought and, in my opinion atleast, it would do better being seperating from the games forum in several concievable ways.

I strongly support deletion of the highly technical forum. The Peripherals forum as well. If they removed those two, then I would be willing to let one new Programming forum be created.

That way, the forums don't get too fragmented and nearly everyone is satisfied.

I live in HT...with all the talk about physics, math, and heavy engineering stuff... we need that place...

why not
combine cpus, motherboards, cases and cooling...
delete peripherals
delete barebones & notebooks

and add programming

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: Udel
I also said "without having to spam" other forums. Which is what I feel like I am doing when I ask a technical question on the games forum.

If you oversplit the forums, then no one goes in. Questions remain unanswered, and people find it useless to post there. Then they leave Anandtech and go to another forum where the questions are answered. Its happened in the past and it will happen again.

With combined forums, you get people in to read your thread who otherwise would never have clicked on that forum link. You get a wider variety of answers and get the answers more quickly. It is a good thing. The side effect of course is that you have to scroll past a few threads that you aren't interested in.

To understand me, take it to the extreme. Think of thousands of individual specialized forums for each type of thread. Who the hell has the time to read them all? No one. Thus no one will read your posts. Sure you aren't talking about such an extreme. But it goes to show that splitting it too much is a very bad idea.

i'd recently been more inclined to say "keep the programming forum where it is" for the same reasons you specify, but there's one thing that stops me from doing so:

my sidebar view appears as such:

Software - Apps ...

you can't see that this "Software" forum is the parent forum for programming issues. therefore, people think it's an off topic issue.

perhaps renaming it to Software & Programming would be more practical.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

wrong forum

 

[Udel]

Originally posted by: Nik
wrong forum

Thats forum dead beyond anything.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: Udel

Originally posted by: Nik
wrong forum

Thats forum dead beyond anything.

WTF are you talking about. There are a lot of people who actively monitor that forum.

Who are you trying to kid anyway. You have 30 posts. Either you have no idea what the hell you're talking about or you're a returning banned member. Either way you have as much say in all this as I do: exactly zero.