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Ummmm, like, the site is nice, but there are some problems.

## 1- Old Questions

If you take a look at the question page, the last question was asked two months ago (unless Mithical posted a question two hours ago, at the time of writing this post). This really gives people the impression that the site is really old and no one has posted anything since two months ago. People may think that the project is not supported anymore or that there's no one to answer, so it would be time-wasting if you spent time writing a question and no one is going to answer. Even when people write answers, they really wait for someone to upvote them, so they feel like they helped someone.

## 2- Advertisement

The site is not advertised. The only time the site was advertised was on Stack Overflow Meta, and I see that there are many active users from Stack Overflow. I'm pretty sure the ad made them sign up. The site is OK. There are many interesting questions that haven't been answered yet. The UI is not the best in the world, I admit, but at least it's usable. The rules are really good; they are not very strict. You could advertise anywhere, literally anywhere. Maybe on Google ads? I'm not a marketer, so I can't tell, but a really good ad, to the point, would make people sign up, no? But, for me, as an Internet user, I would like the site to appear in search results. [This answer](https://software.codidact.com/posts/285035/285818) is excellent. I'm not going to repeat the same text, but I really don't care where to find the answer; I just need an answer. Let's imagine a scenario: I searched on Google (or any search engine) for:

> What does "Dust Bowl Dance" have to do with the song itself?

[You won't find the question that was posted two hours ago.](https://music.codidact.com/posts/286072/286075) If Mithical's question appears in the results, I believe it'll be a win for Codidact because anyone who searches for the same question (even if slightly rephrased, it should appear) will sign up for Codidact, and they will be very happy. They will follow the question, and they will be even happier if they find the answer they are looking for!

## 3- The help center

The first thing that I look for is the help center. I search for the very very basics, like answering and questioning, but more advanced topics like "flagging" are not really there. I feel like Meta is much better and has a lot more information than the help center. The only useful thing was the Codidactyl introduction. It's well made, to the point, and in a funny way that anyone can understand, and then I found my way to Meta, where everything is there. So, the help center should be updated. If the admins can't manage it all, maybe they can request help from the community? I don't mind helping with editing the help center, just to make something useful. If not, the help center may be removed altogether, and maybe a little bit at the end of that introduction to teach people what is Meta. But I would like to update the help center.

## 4- Site proposals

Site proposals should really take more time. Not everyone says, "I'm going to be a casual user", means they are going to be active. Just wait until all sites like Music (the site doesn't have much traffic) are active with a userbase and 2 or 3 moderators, and then launch another site. Just make sure that the last site went well and it's in a healthy state. I like the Area 51 site proposal system. The system is really strict, so sites will definitely be good. They are monitored for a lot of time under the "Beta" label. If they fit the "healthy state" the site is going to launch. If not, the site will "bye." I like quality over quantity, so two active sites are really better than 20 inactive ones.

## 5- Downvoted questions

The questions page should only contain good, well written, interesting questions that gives good impression for new users that the site is good but a question with "-6" in the home page doesn't give good impression, no?

Anyway, there's a lot more to discuss, but these are the main points that I wanted to note. The project is still small, but it's really doing great so far. And sorry for my bad English. I wrote it in 1 hour. :-)