[EricH]

Originally Posted by gblake

I never said they all had to be part of CD. I did write that I think the people who get the urge to add something useful (I'll bet CD existed first), should start by collaborating with the infrastructure that already exists. My hunch is that the collaboration (if it was more than just lip service, and if both/all parties actually collaborate) would create a better and more easily navigated total.

You do realize that the vast majority of these sites started--in quite a few cases, years ago--by working with/on CD? Sometimes, a forum/discussion format just isn't the way to go!

FRCDesigns is a design repository: CAD and the like. CD doesn't do that nearly as well, even in CD-Media (which has quite a few renders, but detailed CAD doesn't fit very well). As I recall, it WAS discussed on CD when it started. There are quite a few other groups that are formed through CD, but work independently because they've got a different purpose for existing.

On another note: There was one infrastructure collaboration between CD and something else. I think FRCwiki is shut down--or at least not in active use--because people just didn't use it and spammers did.