So, I was looking at the Chess.SE site stats today - I found them quite impressive, for the most part. **However, one statistic was** - ahem - **[not so great](https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7551/chess).** Area 51 says **a healthy beta site has 10 questions a day**, and a beta site with five or less needs work. **Chess.SE averages 2.5 questions a day.** _That's not so great!_ >So, what can we do? I think that **we need to expand the scope of the site a little bit.** >Proposed Expansion #1: **Allow for chess puzzles on this site.** Now, we would obviously get an influx of less-than-impressive puzzles. To combat this, I would suggest that we **create a chess puzzle sandbox**. Proposed puzzles with sufficient up-votes are allowed to be posted on the main site; puzzles that have not been run through the sandbox will be closed. [Ideally, puzzles that make it onto the main site are not immediately obvious and show some originality.](https://chess.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/57/whats-the-policy-on-brain-teaser-puzzle-questions-on-chess-se) We could also **add tags for various puzzle themes** - skewer, pin, discovered attack, sacrifice, etc. >Proposed Expansion #2: **Allow questions about chess hardware and software**, as long as they have definite, objective answers. This would include finding/identifying/creating certain styles of pieces/boards _and_ asking about features in widely-used software/websites. We seem to get a lot of fairly reasonable questions in this area that are closed because they aren't about chess directly. >Proposed Qualifier #1 At the same time, we don't want to throw the gates open nilly-willy. I consequently incorporate [my recent meta question](https://chess.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/569/should-we-have-a-more-specific-definition-of-chess-variants) into this expansion request, asking that as we open up to more types of questions, we also have **definitive answers to what is and is not a chess variant that this site addresses.** I would think that we would need to **nail this down _before_ expanding the site.** >**TL;DR** This site is kind of quiet. Let's broaden its scope a tad and maybe wake it back up. --------------------------------------------- _Edit: So......do we have a consensus? Were would we go with this from here?_