I have reviewed many of the ideas posted on this site, and they all pretty much have one thing in common. From the most naive speculation to the most sublime inspiration, all of these ideas are essentially unimplemented. To this are excepted only a few small private projects which were created before WhyNot and later posted on the site(like the admirable online family album), changes in WhyNot's features, and one vague hint about an intention to use pre-delivery e-mails. Despite the best of intentions, I feel that WhyNot has developed into a kind of talking shop, a more serious halfbakery. This is far from a useless function, but it does stray from the original unique and hopeful goal. I realize that the site is only four months old, but I should hope by this point there should have been some progress. I believe this flaw is structural: it is in the whole format of the site, patterned too closely after halfbakery. This halfbakery format is well suited to speculative thinking, after a fashion, but it provides no mechanism at all for real-world development. As far as I know, there has not been one implementation, successful or not, of ANY idea on this site. This is what I know. If there has been any implementation, and there probably has somewhere, neither I nor anyone else on this site has any mechanism to learn about it. Therefore, as a first step toward a reform, I would suggest that anyone who has ever tried to implement any of the ideas on this site, successfully or not, post their account of how it went as a comment on this page. In future, I think more sophisticated mechanisms for implementation should be developed. There could be a button or something you can press to adopt an idea and develop it in a second-stage idea status page with progress reports or something. Anything that works. The main idea is to take the concept of implementation seriously.

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