Split Programming off from Software forum

[acemcmac]

I also support a separate programming forum

 

[Ameesh]

i like the idea, i know i would participate.

 

[fs5]

what does it take?!?

 

[WannaFly]

please do!

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Evadman
Please do. Then I would have somewhere to be helpful.

same here! i guess they're thinking about it as most new forum requests get locked and this one didn't!

 

[klah]

:thumbsup: for programming forum
:thumbsup: for ability to post using monospaced font in programming forum only

 

[yllus]

It's a very good idea. While there might not be a huge impetus for the split right now, the popularity would be up really quickly once people knew the forum area existed.

 

[kamper]

Another vote for seperate Programming. And monospaced fonts that don't appear in those annoying little scroll boxes and preserve whitespace would be fantastic!!

 

[lozina]

signed

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: kamper
Another vote for seperate Programming. And monospaced fonts that don't appear in those annoying little scroll boxes and preserve whitespace would be fantastic!!

You can get rid of that with a user-specified stylesheet in your browser.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: kamper
Another vote for seperate Programming. And monospaced fonts that don't appear in those annoying little scroll boxes and preserve whitespace would be fantastic!!

You can get rid of that with a user-specified stylesheet in your browser.

Hmm, I likes. But I'd still rather have it inline with the rest of the post.

Bump for the Programming Forum!!

 

[tfinch2]

DO IT!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: kamper
Hmm, I likes. But I'd still rather have it inline with the rest of the post.

What do you mean? It is. Or should be. (is for me)

 

[kamper]

Your fix makes the box automatically expand so that all the code is shown. I want no box. I want to be able to type [pre] code [/pre] many times within my message and not have it show up at the bottom of my post. But as I recall there was enough fight to get what we have now so I don't suppose we'll be getting anything better.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: kamper
Your fix makes the box automatically expand so that all the code is shown. I want no box. I want to be able to type [pre] code [/pre] many times within my message and not have it show up at the bottom of my post. But as I recall there was enough fight to get what we have now so I don't suppose we'll be getting anything better.

Ah yeah, I agree, that would rock. A simple

 tag seems like an easier approach in the first place, instead of the attach code thing, where the code attachment isn't "in" your post but is sort of tacked onto it.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

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[SickBeast]

I don't think there is even close to enough traffic to warrant giving programming its own forum.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I don't think there is even close to enough traffic to warrant giving programming its own forum.

But the problem is what little there is gets completely drowned out in the Software/Games traffic. I'd read a "Programming" forum. I might read a "Software" forum. But there's too much dreck in Software/Programming/Games right now to deal with.

And

 tags (which, come on, can't take THAT much effort to add -- it's part of the HTML spec!) would be fantastic.  As has been noted, it's been asked for (repeatedly) before, and somebody (I guess) thought this "attach code" thing was an adequate stand-in (even though it must have taken WAY more effort to add that than it would to just add a new tag to the parser).

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: kamper
Your fix makes the box automatically expand so that all the code is shown. I want no box. I want to be able to type [pre] code [/pre] many times within my message and not have it show up at the bottom of my post. But as I recall there was enough fight to get what we have now so I don't suppose we'll be getting anything better.

It looks nice like it is. (Ohh and bump)

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I don't think there is even close to enough traffic to warrant giving programming its own forum.

perhaps there's not enough traffic because it doesn't have it's own forum? I know I don't visit the games/programming/software/kitchen sink forum now because it's too much to sort through.

 

[mattg1981]

YES!

 

[notfred]

I support creating a seperate programming or programming/web development forum.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Maybe a good generic name would be "software development & programming"

 

[jman19]

Voted "yes."

Sounds like a good idea to me

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Maybe a good generic name would be "software development & programming"

WEll, the software forum should change to :
"Games and apps"

I like your title for the programming forum. I'd actually spend LOTS of time there.