Thanks so much for the helpful feedback. We’re definitely looking for ways to improve the Great Create website, and you’ve hit on a few upgrades that are already in the pipeline, but you’ve also given us some additional ones to consider. I’ve passed your comment along to the team internally, as well.

What is the POINT in looking at what other clever people have done if they are not willing to share how they did it?

Why don’t you make it a condition of submission that the very least that is required to submit is a parts list and schematic? Or a URL that contains this info?

Otherwise it’s nothing but bragging, as far as I can see. Yes, you can be inspired to reinvent the wheel, but who has time for that?

There is a big debate going on in certain areas of science that people who publish learned papers should make their data available for others to recreate their results to see if their ideas are valid. This issue is no different.

The only useful projects are the “partner” ones, which in the case of Instructables means that you can at least go to the website.

However in the case of “Popular Mechanics” or “Popular Science”, if you are not a regular subscriber you are scr***d! You don’t even say _which_ issue to look in.

As I say, more of a major frustration than anything useful.

If you seriously want DIY Hobbyists to come back to your stores in droves, for goodness sake make your site a bit more useful!