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I'm more in favor of the both being their own separate subforum, since they're not really something that can be reasonably grouped together I think. Games and libraries are pretty different things. Overall, though, it probably doesn't matter that much.

This board is low-traffic enough that I pretty much stick to the "active topics" page, so I'm pretty much indifferent. I guess other people who visit regularly might do the same, but for someone just browsing for games/libraries, it could be nice.

I wonder how good a (sub)forum really is at indexing a bunch of software anyway, though. Someone could have completed a great game a year ago and it fell off the first few pages by now, and meanwhile the first page is full of WIP stuff. There's a github repo with a curated list of libraries that's pretty popular; a curated list of games might also work well.

@Kingdaro: Well, both are "projects" per-se, but not having several levels of subs would probably be better. Keeping it nice and flat

@airstruck: It's kinda true though, not just for the projects sub-forum but for the general and support ones as well (well, mostly the latter, but there's crossover) since some code related ideas might still be relevant that were brought up years ago, probably more than once as well.
I kinda talked about this in the irc, with unek mostly, about me going through the threads and creating some faq/knowledgebase hybrid on the wiki, granted, only if i won't be chastised for such usage of the wiki itself but kinda off topic.

airstruck wrote:I wonder how good a (sub)forum really is at indexing a bunch of software anyway, though. Someone could have completed a great game a year ago and it fell off the first few pages by now, and meanwhile the first page is full of WIP stuff. There's a github repo with a curated list of libraries that's pretty popular; a curated list of games might also work well.

Well, games being sorted by update time isn't really a new thing. In fact, that's how most content on the internet period is presented first and foremost, and a forum already has this functionality built in intrinsically. Additionally, topics being bumped to the top just indicate which projects are more popular and active than others. In most cases, save for ~4 year bumps for old 0.7.0 libs or similar.

Games that are a year old should stay a year old, unless there's no reason for them not to be. If someone wants year-old games, the search tools are available to look for them. Or they can just jump to page 20 and half a field day from there.

zorg wrote:@Kingdaro: Well, both are "projects" per-se, but not having several levels of subs would probably be better. Keeping it nice and flat

Yepyep! That'd be my main reason if nothing else.

If every thread would take an average of 5 seconds to classify and move, you're looking at almost four hours worth of work, btw.

Robin wrote:If every thread would take an average of 5 seconds to classify and move, you're looking at almost four hours worth of work, btw.

Or just 24 minutes per person if 10 people were to do it.

The more we're waiting, the more work there will be to do.

Davidobot wrote: Or just 24 minutes per person if 10 people were to do it.

That is, assuming people are organized and no two people look at the same thread at the same time though

For what it's worth, I already said that i was willing to sort everything myself though, and i do have the free time to do it too.
Heck, i could just take a list of topics and sort them into two in notepad or whatever, not sure what good that'd do but meh

...OOOOR let a bayes classifier do all the work and only slowly correct the (hopefully few) mistakes.