I don’t think that’s a very accurate description of the situation.
The situation is that there are very few resources allocated to implementing improvements to the website (that requires money, or time and skill and dedication). Occasionally there are threads where people propose a gazillion improvements and, of course, only a tiny fraction of those improvements has chances of being actually implemented. Whether this counts as a “problem” is debatable, as far as I can tell in any community—online or offline—there is much more talk of “things that someone should do” than actual changes implemented.
If you want to see more improvements, fork out some money! Or, learn how to implement changes, the code is open source after all.
A news flash that you may have read elsewhere, yet doesn’t seem common enough: everyone has dozens of creative ideas. Everyone is the idea guy. Everyone wants to change the world with their fantasical vision that would probably end up being something with the word “Dragon” in the title.
He’s talking about game design and not forum code updates, but I think this is a dilemma that applies to a variety of fields.
I don’t think that’s a very accurate description of the situation.
The situation is that there are very few resources allocated to implementing improvements to the website (that requires money, or time and skill and dedication). Occasionally there are threads where people propose a gazillion improvements and, of course, only a tiny fraction of those improvements has chances of being actually implemented. Whether this counts as a “problem” is debatable, as far as I can tell in any community—online or offline—there is much more talk of “things that someone should do” than actual changes implemented.
If you want to see more improvements, fork out some money! Or, learn how to implement changes, the code is open source after all.
Agreed. This happens so much that it gets articles written about it. Example:
http://www.tilde-one.com/articles.php?id=230
He’s talking about game design and not forum code updates, but I think this is a dilemma that applies to a variety of fields.