Freeware category

[LWM723]

Request for a Freeware category

[Drama Lama]

4 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Request for a Freeware category

you mean free hardwrare or the freeware software type?

[LWM723]

Software

[Spotty]

There is already a forum for discussing software: Programs, Apps, and Websites

[LWM723]

@Spotty
I meant a separate freeware forum where members could post and discuss various freeware.

[LogicalDrm]

33 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

@Spotty
I meant a separate freeware forum where members could post and discuss various freeware.

You mean

Software section does not get such surge of posts currently that there would need to be any kind of separation.

[WereCatf]

1 hour ago, LWM723 said:

I meant a separate freeware forum where members could post and discuss various freeware.

What's there to discuss? A list of freeware software is not the same thing as a discussion, and people just making new threads with something along the lines of "This InsertAppHere is cool and free!" would very quickly make the category both uselessly unwieldy and cluttered and it still wouldn't induce any sort of discussion.

[Vishera]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

What's there to discuss? A list of freeware software is not the same thing as a discussion, and people just making new threads with something along the lines of "This InsertAppHere is cool and free!" would very quickly make the category both uselessly unwieldy and cluttered and it still wouldn't induce any sort of discussion.

I think that a forum is not suitable for it,but rather something like what TechSpot (Hardware Unboxed staff are writers there!) did:

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/

[colonel_mortis]

8 hours ago, Vishera said:

I think that a forum is not suitable for it,but rather something like what TechSpot (Hardware Unboxed staff are writers there!) did:

https://www.techspot.com/downloads/

We're not going to do something like that here. Either it's community-curated, in which case we end up with a bunch of legal headaches and have to worry about malicious content, or it's staff-curated, which would require a vast amount of effort for almost no benefit.