Reply To: Now that you're all here reading the forums again…..

[onlyonepinman 18109xp 2]

I have mixed views on Projects, possibly a topic all to itself. Are they good at what they do? Yes. Are they good for community engagement? No.

They’re really good at allowing me to present work in a very structured and organized manner and they also allow discussion about individual blocks of work to be had without discussion getting mixed up.  Projects are definitely better than forum topics, no doubt about that.

However if I post a project it’s all about me. The nature of projects is such that it only presents a single users work, if I engage with that project I am only engaging with a single person, in order to engage with multiple people I have to go spend a lot of time looking at hundreds of projects.  I tend to find engagement with projects is pretty low – they’re quite good for harvesting XP but not for generating engagement or discussion (also I think, much like Facebook, projects related to certain games definitely attract more attention)

It’s possible that Projects have possibly had a negative impact on forum activity also