NEW OLD ...ready or not ?

Just asked my first question. After logging off I realized that I am asking myself the question. lol Being the only person signed up, kind of makes asking questions, pointless... lol I think maybe some code examples or simple tutorial or machine specific information might be the best thing to start with on a new forum... What was I thinking?... *sigh*

Basic-Programming Forum? I'm going to assume that it may no longer exist. Can you tell us a little more?

And what is dangerous about this cnnection? And if you have too much, you can pay for hosting ..

Tomaaz,

I personally create an account on a Forum mainly by "subject" in this case, Basic. As I have no knowledge of Aurel creating other Forums, I have to accept/reject his suggestions based on what I know of him. Most people online do not know any of us and as such cannot form an opinion as to whether or not a Forum will fail based on the personality of the Forum creator. Failure is usually caused by lack of traffic. Lack of traffic is usually cause by lack of interest in the Forum subject matter (in this case Basic). If I thought for one moment, that Aurel would fail, I would not have been the first to sign up. You are obvious within your rights to hold whatever opinion that you have of Aurel. As do I. Time will be the great test of our opinions...

As to the security, cost and performance issues... I'm not clever enough to speak on those matters.

The sdlbasic website has been around for at least 14 years (when I first joined) and there are only a few of us left. I don't know about all this domain stuff... I hear about it from time to time... but it's tech that's over 'my' head. lol

A good domain or a bad domain will certainly impact the time that sites "park" there... For we Basic users, who only make up a 'sniff-teenth' of the programming community, and do not attract much "passing traffic". Drag and drop, rapid development type software, is attracting a lot of youngsters these days... High attention to "immediate gratification" or quick $ seem to be the trend... We cannot hope to "compete" because it's like comparing apples with oranges. That being said, a lot of sites, that do not appeal to a users interest, will by default, "fade away". Certainly, personality clashes within a Forum, will also have an impact on member numbers, as will poor leadership.

I have been with RCBasic now for just over 3 years. We don't have a large crew but we hope that this will change for the better. Sure, we get some "quirky" visitors; we get visitors that just move on; very few decide to stay for "the long haul". But that's ok. As long as there are people interested in "hard coding" in Basic, Basic sites, will still be around... We have plenty of room for 'new' members... nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Say no more... (couldn't resist a 'sales pitch'... lol)

Have a great day! For me, mine is going to be better, as long as coffee is involved... lol

All gone!