   Post regular games programming related news as threads?
  Why don''t you start posting games programming related news like you have on the homepage as new threads in a forum, in a similar way to how Slashdot works? Everyone is complaining about the number of silly threads that start and one of the causes must be a lack of things to dicuss.Each day, there would be some games related news that posters would read and post their opinions on which would hopefully start some meaningful discussion. At the moment, the majority of new threads are X vs Y topics or just people mucking around instead of things to do with games programming 
  Great suggestion.  We actually have that in the new forums already.  All news will be stored in the forum database.  The front page news section will link to the forums as well.We''re going to work on revamping our news and picking out interesting tech stories for our visitors as well.. stuff that is more aligned with game development or programming in general rather than the array of things that slashdot offers.I think there will be a lot of value in focused discussion on this site in regards to news posts.  I personally am looking forward to it.But for news we''ll probably need to create a panel of volunteers to manage news submissions as well as submit news posts of interest themselves.---Michael Tanczos