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.