Reason for locking showcase?

[jens]

You can discuss your stories in development discussion, it's essentially the same thing as showcase.

The showcase does not work as it is a mess of things in it and it gets worse by every day that passes. The forum is locked for new postings, but you can perfectly fine access the forum and see what was made. You can take the content and post it to MODDB or to post it in a new forum category if appropriate.

If you spend time making something, you should spend time making sure people can try it out as well. Posting a single thread, that very soon gets bumped down and lost forever is such a waste.

Things are not lost, they are still there, at least give the change a chance and don't complain about it within one minute after it being made, only wanting things to be exactly as they were.