Is this forum dead?

BillyBob Jim wrote:

eubank wrote:
Forums like this one are a thing of the past. Only us dinosaurs left. The rest are either dead or on other social media.

:)
Lynn

Not really......The Forest River Forums have over 120000 members and typically over a thousand of those active at a given time. Some of their moderators are also doosies when it comes to being oppressive JKoffs. Quite a few others around just as active also.

This forum is populated by dinosaurs, so you have that correct, and the software used is also from the stone age.

Well maybe ... but this forum is also populated with a lot of stuff not in social media, such as:

1. Wisdom
2. Experience
3. Level-headedness
4. Civility
5. Calmness
6. Sympathy
7. Politeness
8. Good judgement
9. Patience
10. Lack of four-letter explicatives
11. Etc.

As far as stone age software is concerned ... try surfing some of the websites all over the place that are illogical in their layout, unwieldy to use, overly complex, non-intuitive, take 10 minutes or longer to figure out how to use them to accomplish a 30 second task, and/or just plain don't work ... if you think that this software is from antiquity. This forum software is a breath of fresh air compared to some of the trash stuff out there that has a lot of folks fooled into thinking it's "cool".

I wonder how many of today's 20/30-Something programmers have ever thought of having volunteer user groups (of all ages, including dinosaurs) critique their software beta versions before talking their clueless boses into thinking "gee, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread so go ahead and release it". :S and :h