>>as Chatter is gone, there is no unspecified category to post links to interesting articles.
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>>I read something about GraphQL on medium, which might be interesting to DB devs, as this probably will be the best option to query grown data sets across the web unless one adds something on top of an existing ORM or fiddles with an existing replication/synchronization package. Thought about posting under vfp chatter, but wanted to be certain not to touch the possibly still fragile balance around banned "chatter".
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>>NOT meant as a sly way to re-introduce political chatter - but should be loose enough to post anything remotely connected to programming.
>>I would not mind a humour subcategory for xkcd and similar links - doubtful that they would create unwanted responses ;-)
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>We have an Articles category on some of the forums. On that specific article, are you able to pinpoint a specific forum into which it might better fit? If yes, if the Articles category is not there, I will add it.

You could consider bringing back a "General Interest" forum (if you don't want to call it "Chatter"), BUT with only targeted/narrowly-focused subcategories.

I like Thomas's idea, maybe create a "New Technology" or "Technical Articles" subcategory.

There used to be some very interesting and useful threads under "Business", I don't know how that would fit in the current technical forums; it might be a better fit under a "General Interest" forum.

Yes, it's entirely possible people could create off-topic threads under some such forum. But there's nothing stopping them from doing that now under VFP Chatter or any other forum, for that matter. Having narrowly-focused subcategories should help keep them self-policing. You could specifically exclude subcategories such as Politics, Religion, Misc or anything else which might encourage content you don't want on this site.