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I'm not sure how much of a beta stage the page still is in but while submitting a game (yeah I submitted a game woo) the thought occurred to me that this page really lacks in documentation. I mean for an experienced web user most of the stuff is pretty obvious. But there are certain other things that aren't.
For example the red asterisks, the probably mean that a field is mandatory. But it doesn't actually say anywhere that a red asterisk means that a field is mandatory. Similar with submissions. The submission guidelines for articles and reviews essentially consist of one general line.
Then also various kind of forum post codes and similar. I don't think that I've found a comprehensive list of all the tags that are available to a user. An experienced user may think oh yeah obviously the regular tags work but then there are probably some tags that don't (I don't actually know which work and which don't. Is there a spoiler tag in this forum?)
There are a lot of features to this site but I don't really think that there's any good documentation for any of it. I don't really know who'd be best suited for this kid of documentation or if there should be a community effort "let's find features". But I do think that some more information on guidelines and forum code and all kinds of other stuff would be nice.
For example the red asterisks, the probably mean that a field is mandatory. But it doesn't actually say anywhere that a red asterisk means that a field is mandatory. Similar with submissions. The submission guidelines for articles and reviews essentially consist of one general line.
Then also various kind of forum post codes and similar. I don't think that I've found a comprehensive list of all the tags that are available to a user. An experienced user may think oh yeah obviously the regular tags work but then there are probably some tags that don't (I don't actually know which work and which don't. Is there a spoiler tag in this forum?)
There are a lot of features to this site but I don't really think that there's any good documentation for any of it. I don't really know who'd be best suited for this kid of documentation or if there should be a community effort "let's find features". But I do think that some more information on guidelines and forum code and all kinds of other stuff would be nice.
I'll sum up the problem in one small sentence: developers hate writing documentation. I'm not much of a documentation writer, especially as how I built the system, it all makes sense to me.
Oh there's tons of documentation in the code, kentona. :)
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I'll sum up the problem in one small sentence: developers hate writing documentation. I'm not much of a documentation writer, especially as how I built the system, it all makes sense to me.
get someone else to do it
Feel free to start any day, Lazer.
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