Some suggestions

Marcos Meli

Hi, first for all I want to thanks for this wonderfull site :cool: I think your are in the right way allways adding new features and improviding others !! This is a list of little things that can be added, is just my 2 cents. - Add and RSS feed for the messages in the articles. - Add to the stats the numbers of downloads and use it for the popularity. - Add a copy of the vote radio buttons at the top, near the Result. - Remember the downloaded articles for each user (private). - Allow users to be notified by mail when the article is updated, maybe clicking in a button at the bottom of the page. - Add a way to remove old files from the article editor when the owner update it. - An easy way to get a permanent link because all the links to the useritems directory will be wrong (Anyway the asp page propouse the correct one, but I see in the newsletter that you use a permanent link) - To the lastest best picks the articles must have more than 8 or 10 votes (to avoid noise) - When you browse for example for controls these are sorted by rating (not is better to use populatiry ?) CodeProject is the better source of good stuff in DotNet and others technologies and is an honor to send articles to this site and help to enhace it :):) Thanks Again !!! Greetings from Argentina My Articles[^]

Iain Clarke Warrior Programmer

Just adding my (probably wrong) opinion...

Add to the stats the numbers of downloads and use it for the popularity.

While the current voting method is vulnerable, many people (well, me!) download an artcles code if the article looks half decent. If the code is good too (does what I'm told it'll do), it'll be bumped up before I voted for it. Also, on a good article, sometimes I'll redownload the code if its been updated, or I've lost the zip file, etc. All of which would unfairly skew the result.

Add a copy of the vote radio buttons at the top, near the Result.

Being at the bottom makes them a little harder to find, but it does make it more likely that people will al least skim the article before voting, rather than snap decisions.

Allow users to be notified by mail when the article is updated, maybe clicking in a button at the bottom of the page.

This I like. There are some articles that are almost code libraries. It would be nice to know when bug fixes, etc have been released. I, of course, have fixed any bugs looooong ago.

To the lastest best picks the articles must have more than 8 or 10 votes (to avoid noise)

YES. One of my articles briefly appeared on best picks with (I think) 2 votes. It rapidly sunk to its proper "decent" rating. But even though I know the author, I still get suspicious of the 1-2 vote ratings. Iain.