wluke, please explain the information design of this Hacks forum

[theflow]

wluke, thanks. I'm not so sure "hacks in Progress" adds complexity. The real issue is that this forum right here completely ignores the goal to keep requests in one place and releases in another. But if you analyze this forum, you can see that some of the time, or a lot of the time, people are trying stuff out, getting feedback, making changes, etc... so there are many hack attempts that are not really ready for release.

I still contend that you should remove the separate subforum for "requests", let all requests and discussions live here in this forum, and then when people solve the requests, they post in one of two places:

(1) Hacks in Progress -- if they are still troubleshooting the hack before it's been "certified" by multiple users here that indeed the hack works.

(2) Released Hacks 2x -- when other users have certified that the hack works.

It may seem complicated when you read this, but I would suggest that it's actually a lot more straight forward and clean:

Request Bin (here)
Hacks in progress (till it's certified by others as okay)
Released Hacks (after certified that it works)

My suggestion is that moderators would move an item from "Hacks in progress" to "released" simply based upon reading responses and seeing when people say "thanks, it works", etc.

Does anyone else see where I'm coming from?