That's a pretty cool link. The reviews are a hoot. I didn't peruse them sufficiently to know whether or not anybody called it a good Sumer-time read, or not.
I tried to bring back the contests, and the first one we had a huge participation... but the second one we had one submission
You cant be 100% successful all the time. Thats not the definition of a programmer. lol. Maybe it was the topic or content etc. for the second one
Yep i have to say even though i didn't participate in either (i struggle to find the time at the moment) i didn't even know the second one was under way as you stopped posting about it in Chit-chat. Not everyone just has the new posts screen up and so i think if you do decide to try it again then you should definitely add a post advertising it in chit-chat.
Also you subject for your first competition was better, taking a look at the second one i had never heard of that dice game.
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Yes that thread and book alone have given me many hours of unbridled joy and made me happy i became a member.
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
If VBF participation is declining, and it does seem to be. What is not? The need for information isn't in decline, and the languages on here are certainly common enough. SO can't be picking up everything can it?
I wonder if the name of the forum is anything to do with it??
VB is not what people are learning anymore at college or university and so when they go looking for a programming site the name doesn't resonate with them which is a shame as this is a great site.
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I think I've been here over tens years now...since the beginning most of the answers I have needed come up in searches. Not only here but when using Google. My point is I don't think the number of new posts has a direct relationship to how many people are using the site. I don't post solutions that often because the experts here tend to know the nuts and bolts along with the whys. I'm content to help when I can and enjoy the show.
I'm usually on every workday day several times.
Here is the top of how many viewers there are just at this posting. I call it respectable for a site of this nature:
As a moderator do you have access to statistics on how many people visit the site daily that you can post? Just something to put some meat on the discussion.
Unfortunately I do not. My job is to basically weed out the (which is a lot!!!) and to move threads. That would be something that Brad or Steve would have.
Well, you're not doing your job then... the pill pusher Ed-something or other is really pushing it. 1 post in this thread 3-4posts in another.... spmming his own thread with 2 posts.... sweet jesus momma...
The Metro forum is pretty hilariously silent. Can you imagine if they'd created an Azure forum?
I'm not suggesting there is anything inappropriate about either techology. What it really tells us is a lot more about the types of members we have here. At least in terms of .Net, since Microsoft pretty much left VB6 progammers out in the cold on both.
My conclusion would be that the membership is mostly students, hobby plinkers, and vocational coders. The few professional and experienced programmers probably answer far more questions than they ask.
Of course I'm sure some are doing more than tinkering with Metro (or UAP, or whatever it is called tomorrow, maybe Golden Levitating Boots?) but they wouldn't ask about it here because the odds of good answers are better elsewhere. So it becomes a bit of a self-defeating situation: no questions being asked here, nobody asks new questions here. Basically, "the community doesn't live here."
Azure has no forum here but I'm sure it gets a slightly larger trickle of questions, though somewhat the same situation applies.
Hey Woss, I guess all communities change over time but it definitely doesn't feel the way it used to on here.
I think the bulletin board format is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but I remember getting involved in some fantastic discussions and a few collaborative projects through this website which wouldn't be possible over the modern StackExchange format. There are people on this website who gave me more valuable knowledge than I ever got from a classroom and I'm forever indebted to them.
I almost wish I worked with .NET just so I could contribute as much as I used to be able to.
I think the bulletin board format is getting a bit long in the tooth now, but I remember getting involved in some fantastic discussions and a few collaborative projects through this website which wouldn't be possible over the modern StackExchange format.
Great observation. Yes, the forum model does have the ability to maintain a thread for a long time without seeking a specific end state - things can evolve for many months if there is recurring interest. It can foster a terrifically friendly and supportive atmosphere under the right circumstances.
StackExchange (which is great for purely learning stuff in a hurry) is eager to divide broad topics down to specific and mostly esoteric points and solve them definitively and then analyse the crap out of it until the people who did all the work have been divorced from it by the machine. It can be sterile and soulless. That said the SE model is very interesting and it is always being reviewed and improved. It's probably a superb model for corporate CRM (or whatever they are calling it these days) systems to take inspiration from.
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There are people on this website who gave me more valuable knowledge than I ever got from a classroom and I'm forever indebted to them.
I have to say that I don't get that nostalgic about programming languages, or not at all, as I do with Games so I would just have to say that I will just miss persons leaving but not dead languages (as much sympathy I may have for VB6 I, well, I really don't care).
Having said that I'm relived to see that there are many members here that joined earlier than I did and are still active so I don't feel that I am the old timer here.
I however do miss the good ol' API C development - posting on early 1.0, 2.0 on Microsoft mobiles. Was having a good time till MS decided to do it .net oriented. And then they decided to create W8 mobiles. Who is having one now? Muharrrhaaarrr! :P OK off topic.
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I'm not sure Wossy actually left in the end. He got sucked into the Internet of Things and nobody ever truly escapes the tentacular clutches of that forum. There are dark things in there.
He was cuddly and only rarely pooped on the carpet
He does have probably the best avatar on the forum.
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I'm not sure Wossy actually left in the end. He got sucked into the Internet of Things and nobody ever truly escapes the testicular clutches on that forum. There are dark things in there.
Well I'm still hanging around! :-) And I'm glad to still see the regular names from when I joined such as kregg, dClamp, Mendhak and the likes. (Of course Wossy as well! :-D)
There's a few things I remember about CC in my day. (Which is not as far back as most here, but still a while ago...)
One was Wossy's brilliant jokes (Examples here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
Hairball's obsession with Oceanebelle
Mendhak with his sciences... (And upside down text on his site...)
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Originally Posted by RobDog888
if the query is solved & Rate those who have helped you 
(which is a lot!!!) and to move threads. That would be something that Brad or Steve would have.
LTNS.
He was cuddly and only rarely pooped on the carpet.
