Dead?

Did everyone somehow schedule their vacations for this month or something? I mean heck, there have been two posts on the announcement board in the past 8 days.  The bugs and learn boards are almost equally stagnant.

Dead?

Perhaps, for fear that D might some day overtake C#, Microsoft is strategically eliminating everyone who posts to this newsgroup, and YOU could be next.

-Craig

I blame the newsgroup system ;). People are just too used to regular web forums nowadays, so I think it hampers the community's growth. I always use the web interface; I don't think I even have a newsreader installed.

--AJG.

In article <d9u7hi$17ep$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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>Dead?
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>Did everyone somehow schedule their vacations for this month or something? I mean heck, there have been two posts on the announcement board in the past 8 days.  The bugs and learn boards are almost equally stagnant.
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2B || !2B, that is the question.

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Dead?
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> Did everyone somehow schedule their vacations for this month or something? I mean heck, there have been two posts on the announcement board in the past 8 days.  The bugs and learn boards are almost equally stagnant. 
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It is not dead, it is just sleeping...

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> Dead?
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> Did everyone somehow schedule their vacations for this month or something? I mean heck, there have been two posts on the announcement board in the past 8 days.  The bugs and learn boards are almost equally stagnant. 
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> 

It's summer. What do you expect? :-)  People typically get outrageously busy during summer. I know I do. I've had very little time for D over the last couple of months.

You'll see.  Come fall and winter... it'll be a-buzzing again here.

I was noticing that dsource was stagnating too.

-JJR

In article <d9u7hi$17ep$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Jarrett Billingsley says...
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>Dead?
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>Did everyone somehow schedule their vacations for this month or something? I mean heck, there have been two posts on the announcement board in the past 8 days.  The bugs and learn boards are almost equally stagnant.
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Everyone's on vacation.  Sniff around dsource.org and you'll see a sudden drop in activity from frequent posters.

Kris was out all last week, and if this summer is anything like the last, he'll be gone for a while.

I'm in Denver right now on training at Sun (yes, we're taking on more Java at work.. burn me as a heretic when I get back).  So I've dropped off the radar a little.

I'm sure things will pick back up in Sept/Aug.

- EricAnderton at yahoo

"Craig Black" <cblack@ara.com> wrote in message news:d9ua6n$1ajk$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Perhaps, for fear that D might some day overtake C#, Microsoft is strategically eliminating everyone who posts to this newsgroup, and YOU could be next.

Hehe, though to tell the truth, if I had to use one language other than D, I'd probably choose C#, only because it's so similar.

"AJG" <AJG_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d9udab$1f3p$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>I blame the newsgroup system ;). People are just too used to regular web forums
> nowadays, so I think it hampers the community's growth. I always use the
> web
> interface; I don't think I even have a newsreader installed.

As an avid forumer, I'll have to agree with you there.. NGs seem like something out of the infancy of the internet.  Or before that.  Even a very basic forum system would be better than this.

"pragma" <pragma_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:d9uk1b$1ouu$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Everyone's on vacation.  Sniff around dsource.org and you'll see a sudden
> drop
> in activity from frequent posters.

At least it's not just here!

"John Reimer" <brk_6502@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d9uf75$1iv9$1@digitaldaemon.com...

Woah!  How'd you post from the future?  If I'm not mistaken, there is nowhere in the world right now where it's 11:30 AM on the 30th..

Alas, that discussion has happened many times previous.  Considering I write forum software, one should have an idea of my position ;).

Walter, on the other hand, seems to prefer newsgroups - I believe he felt it preferable to be able to work with a client of your choice, than a web interface (to which my answer would be theming, but that still doesn't completely solve it.)

-[Unknown]


>>I blame the newsgroup system ;). People are just too used to regular web forums
>>nowadays, so I think it hampers the community's growth. I always use the web
>>interface; I don't think I even have a newsreader installed.
> 
> 
> As an avid forumer, I'll have to agree with you there.. NGs seem like something out of the infancy of the internet.  Or before that.  Even a very basic forum system would be better than this.

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:

> As an avid forumer, I'll have to agree with you there.. NGs seem like something out of the infancy of the internet.  Or before that.  Even a very basic forum system would be better than this.

It's a shame that Google Groups refuses to pick up the digitalmars NGs.

It would have made it more accessible... But there's always Dsource ?

--anders