The following changes are currently only being made to iCodes US..

Current System

iCodes was developed as a platform for all users to contribute to tidying/adding the data into a shared database, but sadly after 6 years we have realised this concept has far too many drawbacks for it to work how we would like.

The drawbacks are..

Very few are willing to contribute anything so most work left to a few.
Not everyone is happy with what is being contributed.
Difficult to enforce the same formatting.
Contributors complain that others are not contributing.
New contributors need teaching the how to's and do not's.
Causing extra workload for us to develop different methods to increase contributing.
Issues with contirbutors copy/pasting invalid characters.
A mistake by a contributor effects everyone.
Makes the system appear complicated to new users.

New System

The new solution is for only iCodes to tidy/add all data which is imported from network feeds, and give all users permissions to add missing Codes/Offers manually if they want to, but whatever they add goes exclusive to the user.

The advantages are..

All shared feed formatting will be the same.
Nobody is under any pressure to contribute anything.
Users can add data without worrying what others think of it, so more likely to use the features.
Any mistakes made only effect the user adding the data.
More time for us to work on other areas than developing new ideas to improve contributing.
Makes the system appear less complicated to new users.