   The disturbing entropy of the Gamedev Articles Archive = (
  I wasn't sure where to put this, so the lounge seemed the most high-profile place to say it.I was looking around the Game design section of Gamedev's articles repository, and i noticed something saddening, very saddening: In 2 years, 1 year for some, most (Though not all) of the articles in the Game Design section will be a decade old or older. I fear the same antique feeling is spreading throughout the rest of the article repository as well.What does this mean? Well, for me, its kind of sad that no one feels the desire to submit articles of the quality that were submitted around the turn of the century. That the community just doesn't see the point, or that gamedev is no longer the source it used to be for that purpose, or something like that.On another front, not alot of them are even VALID a decade later. I mean, aside from the nostalgic and historical perspective, how applicable is an article like: "Designing for Online Communities[Added: 1/5/2000] David Michael  Excellent article covering things you MUST consider when designing online games." ...8 years later when the online game genre has undergone such massive growth and change? Not only this example, but the place is full of links to resources and articles that don't even exist anymore, like Chris Taylors DD Template, for example.My question is this: Should we just leave these articles sitting in the repository to stagnate for another 5..10...who knows how many years? Or should a push be made to preen all articles from before a certain date into an "archive of older articles" section of some sort? I mean, seriously, we are considered one of the foremost gathering of game developers online, shouldn't we appear to be a little more...up to date?   
  I presume our members are intelligent enough to read the articles and realize when they are outdated.The industry moves pretty fast (except in regards to proper software engineering discipline, but I digress), so a lot of articles will be outdated at all times.Moving to the CSI forum.   