Why is this site sooo lame now?

**ßracius** · June 4th, 2005, 01:54 PM

BALETED! BY forwarned of the Aardvark. They comith and you are still eating Cheetos

**Mayet** · June 4th, 2005, 09:04 PM

Me...I am sitting back sipping lychee tea......

Windrivers won't die......at least not while this thread gets replies..............

**Larommi** · June 4th, 2005, 10:40 PM

ok, so here is a reply

**Platypus** · June 4th, 2005, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by Larommi

ok, so here is a reply

Here's another one - and it's Rooibos Tea for me...

I don't think there's any one clear reason for light activity in the Tech Forums. Quietness in the Lounge is obviously due to departure of numerous Lounge posters. Losing the contribution of a member of the stature of Adept will disadvantage any forum - at least it was due to re-ordering of personal priorities, not any quarrel with WinDrivers. The same cause applies to the circumstances of several techs who post infrequently at the moment, eg NooNoo who is heavily committed with study and personal matters.

Burn-out is another thing, after 15 years of computing and 4 years posting on WD, I've got really fed up with computers and have basically taken a rest from computing this year. I got an E-MU 0404 sound card, new laser printer and CD printing inkjet at the beginning of the year, they are all unused & my P4 hasn't been booted up for 3 months.

Other factors already mentioned by other posters will be having their effect. Some queries are answered immediately in chat and never appear on the forums. The predominance of WinXP and the accompanying need to update hardware has reduced the call for older drivers, and changed the balance of tech queries toward security issues. A lot of the most active forums have HijackThis logfile analysis, which we don't, and even though you see a lot of repeat traffic ("I got infected again..." - mental image of Homer Simpson holding a skunk at arms length, "Marge, this skunk sprayed me... Aauuggh, its doing it again...!! ), if people do a search on a malware name, they'll get help sites with HijackThis forums. If they get helped there, they are likely to return there for other issues.

**amyb** · June 5th, 2005, 05:03 PM

Here is another reply. It is not lame and neither is Windrivers. That is all.

**rgharper** · June 5th, 2005, 07:50 PM

... and another reply ...

If you think it's lame, what are you doing to improve the situation?

**El_Squid** · June 6th, 2005, 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by rgharper

... and another reply ...

If you think it's lame, what are you doing to improve the situation?

Personal responsibility? EEaargh... my eyes are burning!

**Ya_know** · June 6th, 2005, 09:29 AM

Originally Posted by rgharper

... and another reply ...

If you think it's lame, what are you doing to improve the situation?

Nothing. I did my part...

**Platypus** · June 6th, 2005, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by Ya_know

I did my part...

Well perhaps now you should put your part away and do something more useful...

**Brian G** · June 6th, 2005, 12:29 PM

I don't see why WD can't build back up again. Why doesn't the new management do something new and exciting here instead of just letting this place run itself?

**Matridom** · June 6th, 2005, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by Brian G

I don't see why WD can't build back up again. Why doesn't the new management do something new and exciting here instead of just letting this place run itself?

I know that there are changes occuring and things are moving. It just may not be apparent.

**Ya_know** · June 6th, 2005, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Matridom

I know that there are changes occuring and things are moving. It just may not be apparent.

Did Richard pack up his desk yet...

**Matridom** · June 6th, 2005, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by Ya_know

Did Richard pack up his desk yet...

No. I'm not going to comment on this in public. You have your views, I have mine.

**Ya_know** · June 6th, 2005, 03:56 PM

Wow...16:55 EDT, we have had 109 registered users visit...the place is boomin'!

**Toppro** · June 6th, 2005, 04:26 PM

110 out of 45,515 have visted today= 0.002416785675052180599802262990223That's 1/4 of 1 percent of all users that have visted today. Granted I know that people have left, only come back once in a while etc, but that's alot of members not accounted for that obviously

I used to remember that at times there were way more people than just 100 visting the website

JTS for example has 77/221 people visting today. I know that it is a smaller site, but a good majority of those 221 people did come from here. I would say maybe about 150 members that Windrivers has lost went over there, and those were alot of the long time members of WD

It's too bad the site has just gone downhill since it's peak 3 years ago.