Guys: Please consider that endless posting on the internet, especially getting endlessly dragged down into arcane ratholes like worrying about whether some post is “on-topic”, is not likely to be fruitful use of your mental energy. So far, ten years of internet chit-char have not resulted in much that I can think of. Yes, conversations can often wander, especially when the topic itself is not well-defined. People without actual ideas then fixate on such trivia. Talk is not going to do it. Action is required. Ask yourself: Would AWE be possible without the internet? With that I will wrap it up, and end this post! 
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Since people will, since they can, still post in the main categories without subcategories, moderators would need to move them there to no real benefit. That’s why I won’t make “misc” subcategories, but if more people demand them, I will.
Can confirm.
Ah, let’s just try putting all the Wikis in one category and a sticky post with links and see what happens.^^
Most wikis don’t have a proper category fit anyway.
Don’t think there’d be people working on articles for an external wiki since there are few working on wikis here.
Will move posts there soon and link them in the list soon if noone has done it before I get around to it.
@dougselsam If you want to encourage people to build more, I think doing so in a positive way is more effective. Do you think there would have been more progress if people had not been discussing things? While the benefit might not be large, I don’t think anyone built less because they were busy discussing things online. I mean - even you seem to find the time even though you’ve expressed that building is vastly more important.
I don’t think there is anything more positive than pointing out that individuals can outperform the largest big-name entities. This “secret” information is only “secret” because we are all so used to having our reality defined by by such humongous, often “do-nothing” organizations. They convince us that them doing nothing is the best anyone can do. It becomes comfortable to believe we are powerless, playing into our natural capacity for laziness. The huge corportions then have an endless supply of directionless “employees” who will “do what they re told”, while the universties profit from people who, not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel of their education, stay in school too long, beating the dead horse of their indoctrinated helplessness, while in fact they have full power to make any contribution to society they want, with the only real limitation their own imagination. Within reason. Many people are resistant to this information because they have been so convinced they are helpless that it becomes comfortable. Like a bird whose cage-door is opened, they often nonetheless remain in the cage, because that is what they have become accustomed to.
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I only see the topics from scrapyard in the lounge when I’m not logged in.
The name scrapyard really is grim.
I’d be happy featuring in a homebrew section.
As for topics like Yo-yo in engineering section
They were set up as wikis… I really don’t want to “own” the yo-yo topic
@Tom made a nice work for the forum by reorganizing the categories and subcategories.
The title of this topic is “Let’s (re)build the AWES community!”. For it let’s (re)build a viable AWES!
A bug, I suppose as toggling the setting “hide from latest topics” did nothing.
That took one ugly workaround, but it’s fixed now.
You don’t have to use it, if you don’t feel like it. You can always just put things in Lounge.
I’m fond of the topic as it’s a bit of a contrast to the business world, where failures are concealed and more like the scientific ideal where an experiment is valuable if it came out as expected or not. I also like it for social reasons. It would be nice to have a community where one is comfortable sharing crashes and failures. It’s also encouraging to not give up, when one sees that others have crash, too. Like seeing the early work and sketches of famous painters.
For showing off ones own progress? Hmm I’m afraid it could cause a bit of confusion with the Engineering category. But there isnt really a place where one can track the progress of ones system including testing days. I’ll make one and we’ll see how it will be used.
(Could be a main topic as well)
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Now the posts look like they are not in a category. (Edit: oh, now you do see the category) The solution is to make a new category, not named Lounge probably, and put a lounge and scrapyard subcategory in there. I’d be happy to move the posts after you’ve made the subcategories.
Community seems healthy lately 
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The modern kite-flying community within AWE R&D is vigorously healthy. If not exactly “stoked”, AWE aerospace is quite healthy by its relentless theoretic evolution. Suggestion to “(re)build” narrowly applies to a few venture failures and design dead-ends.
AWE community building started with kite sport elites and the specialist aerospace circles that invented their power kites. This is the deep well-spring of healthy AWE depends on. Expect ongoing growth in AWE R&D, and healthy kite community to triumph.
We must above all fly our AWES many thousands of hours, and let experience guide us. Kite success has never depended on capital and secret IP. Open knowledge sharing and hands-on testing has always been superior basis of AWE community.
The mature AWE community will be built around the best AWES technologies, as a diverse branch of Aviation Safety Culture operating in closely shared airspaces. This is the only sound basis for healthy AWE community, that will always (re)build itself.