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Actually, Q&A killed the forums.
They used to be very active, now people want the quick gimme codez option so they aren't really used very much.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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But still I'm glad that forums not flooded with those type of questions
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The problem is the forums aren't flooded in any type of questions.
Do my homework style questions were fielded, and shot down. Newbie questions were asked, often these were shot down too - but less so than Q&A - and one person shooting down would be noticed a decent help often given.
The forums were much more self-policing: Let's say someone tried the "See my near identical answer" thing so prevalent in Q&A just didn't happen. This behaviour would have been called out, and very visibly (as opposed the need to open the specific question) in the forums. A lot of the worst aspects of the Q&A simply weren't tolerated in the forums.]
I'm not say the forums being active was a bed of roses - guilty of grouphthink and their were dingbats questions and answewrs, but the situation was (and is) much better there.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Okay, here's a thought for the articles. When an article is entered for a competition, it goes to a separate moderation queue rather than the main one. That way it's going to be a lot easier to prioritise your time reviewing articles.
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That would certainly help as the competition article often have different acceptable criteria.
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DaveAuld wrote: API
I believe it is being worked on. For at least 5 years to my knowledge.
If only they had a group of developers willing to volunteer their time to help the communi... oh, wait....
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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They could also host it in an open collaborative source repository, something like GitHub, maybe called it 'workspaces'....oh, wait 
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Why can't Q&A do a pop over/under to google with the title of the question entered as the search criteria.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Because the results set would be full of SO links
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It's grey I tell you NOT blonde!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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DaveAuld wrote: So with the sad demise of Workspaces and TV the question must be,
Sad? I thought both were rather useless, and workspaces was certainly annoying.
What I'd like to see is some improvements to the RSS feed. The "authors" field is blank, there's no way to distinguish between updates and new articles, nor articles vs. blog posts.
I'll be mentioning that in the suggestions forum at some point. 
Marc
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I suppose it is only sad if you used it and liked it, or if you were one of the devs that spent many hours developing it.
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DaveAuld wrote: I suppose it is only sad if you used it and liked it, or if you were one of the devs that spent many hours developing it.
Exactly, and I have great empathy for both users and those devs. It sucks when that happens. I do wonder why it didn't take off (though certainly I'm a contributor to the problem, as all of my recent articles have the source code hosted on GitHub.)
Marc
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I'm still relatively new to github and was looking to potentially use workspaces for my private repositories and was actually looking at how you handle multiple repositories, but got distracted by other stuff so never followed through on actually starting to use workspaces. Glad I didn't now!
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Buy StackOverflow.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Rather than ask "What's next?", ask yourself this:
Why do I use CodeProject?
How would I like to use CodeProject?
What do I not use on CodeProject?
My answers:
I use CodeProject to find solutions to issues I have; I frequently find what I am looking for in arcticles. The forums I frequent are VB and Database; where I can, I will assist.
I would like to see a reputation system that is based on articles and coding forums only - I shouldn't be increasing my reputation by posting inane whatever in the Lounge or any other non-coding forum.
I have tried to use QA, but gave up because of the incessant 'Help plz', and other such vitriol.
Tim
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I agree with those and will add;
A better tablet interface. Maybe I'm not doing something I should be doing but when I first come to CP on my tablet everything is desktop size and I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to change to ?full site? I think is the button label.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Well, given the time in Canadia, right now, I'd say the next thing is lunch.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think that the site needs to be more interactive and responsive to the needs of the primary stakeholders while delivering a forward-looking design. Is it in The Cloud yet? And why does it not look right on my 10-year-old phone? Can you make it work like Facebook? Have you upgraded to HTML 5 yet? Don't you need that for The Cloud? My friend's nephew said he could do this in a day with WordPress, he's only 13, why are you saying it will take months? This is all digital, right? Is it in high-def?
[I just thought I'd throw out the same kind of nonsense I've gotten in the past.]
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I am the one tasked with upgrading my bushwalking club's website. I don't have much experience with websites but I'm a "computer guy" so it was a lay down misere. After a bit of research decided to use Joomla cms which beguiled me with "get a website running in one hour" promises. It's a week later and I'm getting there and learning a great deal about how the other half lives. I've made tons of mistakes and still don't understand lots. Documentation and structure leave a lot to be desired. Third party add-ons while laudable in their intentions often add to the problems. Maybe I've been too ambitious.
My conclusion is that I should have started with a minimal installation and got that working then prettied it up.
Tomorrow night I will demo to the committee. That is something to look forward to.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 6-Aug-14 0:28am.
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pwasser wrote: Tomorrow night I will demo to the committee.
Good Luck!
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All the best for the Demo!!!
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Sucks to be you!!
(Said because I'm the webmaster for my 4wd club, and yes, we recently switched to Joomla... I feel your pain!!)
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Good luck tomorrow! 
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pwasser wrote: "get a website running in one hour" promises.
And the apps that promise this stuff do indeed do that.
It's a rap site (with a capital 'C'), but it's up and running. It'll then take you all year to get it working right, but that's not their problem: you've invested time in getting that far, so you'll probably continue.
It's like all the "Learn ABC in XYZ days!!!" books out there: useless piles of steaming canine excrement for anything outside the narrow scope of the document. But they sell to the lazy and stupid...who then think they are master coders when they close the book. 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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