This was NOT meant to be another one of those "why did you close the forums" things.
I have read tons of posts concerning the closed forums, and I did not want to start another one of those discussions! I can perfectly well understand that developers actively contributing to mootools find the newbie questions in the forums tiresome, and it really takes time away from the development part of being a developer. It's not very fulfilling to spend 90% of your time to support your product, if your product is not a commercial one. Those things aside: I was just wondering about the progress of things. Since the official blog has not been updated in 3 months, I think that is a valid question. The blog also functions as a marketing tool, promoting MooTools at the very least, and if there are no new MooTools releases to speak of, one can at least keep the users wanting more by giving small teasers on what is to come. New features, performance improvements, implementation of W3C selector api, etc. Posting to a blog is not something that takes nearly as much time as keeping forum users happy with free and unlimited support ;) Since we are already discussing forums in this thread, here are my thoughts: - Having a public forum on the official site gives the MooTools community a common place to hang out, meet, share, help one another and GROW. That's important for any community. - Having a public forum where core developers don't hang out at all, is better than no forum what so ever. A forum can run itself with the help of dedicated followers willing to step in as moderators. We can survive a few threads with "where are the developers?" whining. I will volunteer to reply to those threads myself, explaining why the developers are busy developing. If you, the core developers, find that forums are just tiresome and none-productive, I totally respect and understand that. You want to spend your time developing. How about just setting up a forum (doesn't take too long!) and find some dedicated individuals willing to moderate it (doesn't take too long either!)? Just set it up and never visit it at all. At least you have then given the community an official place to hang out, share, connect and most importantly: GROW!
