@theiNaD

Good questions will be unseen, because they won't stay on the frontpage for long. This is sad for people having a "real problem" being stuck at something.

+100%

Why are basic questions about php so bad? I'd rather have laravel be a community that helps people than turn them away cuz their question is about displaying arrays than technical difference between repositories and models.

Moderation would help with moving a thread to the proper category and at the same time people won't have to see noob questions within the design pattern section of the site. this would also help with issues that Jeffery's genrators package has with his issues section. Lot's of folks post "Don't work" even though the post above clearly says "only for L4 not L5".

I do agree having L4 and a L5 section shouldn't be necessary but during version change transition phases what should be done? Ask every poster if it's a Lx issue or a Ly issue?

@andy I agree with you 100%!

@pmall (refering to your age request for us old people at 30) I'm 27 and I'm here to learn! I'm already PHP 5.3 Certified with Zend, but that does not mean I have the best practice, nor does it I mean I code well with OOP. I have been stuck in coding crap (and only seeing crap code) for a while. So now I'm trying to take as many as the Laracast vidoes I can, even basic ones, to make sure I'm doing things the "right" way. We can always learn more :-)

@JoshWegener Yes you seem to have a good state of mind and it would be a pleasure to help people like you.

I was referring to some threads I've seen these day with people which clearly don't know what they are talking about. Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood today :)

One possibility is tighter integration with the videos and series'. The current forum has evolved into a more general Laravel/PHP discussion forum, which is ok, but these already exist in many forms outside of Laracasts. To me, the core value of Laracasts is the lessons; discussions should exist to support this core instead of serving their own purpose as generic PHP forum.

Here are a few suggestions:

• Create categories for each of the various Laracasts collections and series. If possible, create sub-forums for specific videos. This would make it more likely to get questions related to various videos/series' answered if you happen to watch a few weeks after release.

• Consider eliminating the inline commenting system entirely and direct viewers to the related forum; pulling related content from the forum beneath each video. Commenting beneath the videos seems to dry up a few weeks after release. It's very unlikely that posting a question below a video six months after release will get answered. Thus, viewers are more likely to create new forum threads. Linking the videos to dedicated discussions should allow them to persist a lot longer with more organization.

Why are basic questions about php so bad?

@andy It's not the basic questions, it's the "let's ask this question even though it's in the Laravel docs.".

@neovive I like those ideas.

@bashy I'm pretty sure you are also referring to those who type before try, so ... I can see where you are coming from and can agree.

Review of functionality I've seen so far .... sorry if I missed any.

- new post since last visit
- unread posts
- ability to see more of your own posts in the profile section
- answered/unaswered posts
- closeable and non-closeable (open type of threads)
- thanks ability --sometimes a person doesn't answer the question so to say but added information or maybe just somebody cruised by and liked a post 
- booked mark / favorite
-  link videos to forum / threads
- Search, search and search

@JeffreyWay Because the unaswered questions - I found the little menu button but: In many cases the users doesnt mark the post as "solved".

Maybe it would be also good to have a link/option to posts with 0 replies. So for these posts which are really not solved :)

There are many tricks in posts. Sometimes I read something and I think "great I'll use it if I need !". But when I need it I've lost it and I cant find it in search because there are so many posts there. So I began to link these posts but I end up with a messy bunch of links.

I have no precise idea but would it not some tricks section to create (not the one that already exists) where we could add and format interesting answers with a tag system ? I know there is http://www.laravel-tricks.com/ that works like this but I rarely find something there for some odd reason.

I Know what I say is not very clear but I hope you understand what I mean.

^ this. Is there a possibility of viewing my liked posts? I usually like these types of posts and having the opportunity to list your liked posts could solve this to some extent.

@andy Haha yeah and that. I enjoy helping people what ever skill level but what I don't want to do is ask 100 questions to get the information that should of been in the main thread itself.

@ various ideas

Please check my ongoing update before posting similar ideas. The few posts between this one and my over view suggested similar things :) Awesome but I'm just trying to help with keeping this thread some what organized.

@bashy Thanks! And thanks from those who haven't thought saying "thanks" to you. I try my best but a majority of the people here are just better than me but I still try,

@bestmomo Yea same here. It's hard to find something again! I do like your idea though ;)

I noticed today that Jeffrey added a feature