Thoughts on SubSonic Management

I’m finally getting around to organizing SubSonic a bit and, aside from flaming me for the obvious (docs suck, project’s dead, etc) – I’d really like your help on a few things.

Forums
Our forums are doing decently well but managing the server/software/upgrade sucks. I’ve been at it all day today and it’s not terribly fun. If you boil down what users are trying to do (get their questions answered, find answers) – it’s a bit overkill to host this stuff yourself. Especially when someone else is doing it SO MUCH BETTER.

So I have an idea. I sent Jeff an email about this and hopefully he’ll consider it. Here’s the idea:

Subdomains for Stackoverflow for Open Source project support. Subsonic.Stackoverflow.com. Win/Win.

Let’s face it – people will probably head there for answers quicker than our forums. As it stands I really don’t need a subdomain – I can just navigate to the tagged questions if I like. But having a subdomain could allow for some branding – maybe a logo or advertising support (which I could split with Jeff). Possibly even domain-specific “Hot” and “Votes” etc.

So in response to Jeff’s latest post (which I liked a lot), I’d say this kind of thing would really, really, really help. And I promise not to make fun of him anymore :).

Docs
I really like the way Wordpress does there stuff. Clean, easy to find – boom, answers. The thing is that, well, they get paid to do that stuff full time, and there’s a lot of em. I’d like to do something like this and I think I can do it easily with the platform I have now (Graffiti) – the thing I’m after is organization and help. Your thoughts on this would really help me!

Thanks for your thoughts on this…