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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 58943" data-source="post: 735251">Forums are tough places. Often unforgiving. More often than not with a small handful of disruptive/destructive people. A lot of developers are also this way. Often they will show up on forums to promote, talk about or support their products and eventually they all seem to get dismayed and disappear. Anyone that has lurked around wilders for decades knows that many years ago there were probably a 100 or more well known developers, support people or engineers from a wide range of firms on that forum. Today they&#039;re all largely gone and what&#039;s left are people complaining why XYZ runs bad on Windows XP and so forth.There are &#039;safe&#039; forums where pros and devs usually regress. Vendor forums. Official support forums with extreme moderation. Engineering and development specific forums. Enterprise/Corporate IT forums, etc. Private pro/dev Facebook groups have become prevalent. I think that&#039;s where a lot of developers/engineers/personnel regressed to and you can&#039;t really slight them for it. They don&#039;t have time to deal with the inevitable attacks and dramas that come interacting with the general public who are universally disliked to be dealt with by most pros and devs for a wide variety of reasons.TLDR; Basically, you have a few brave souls that venture into the wilderness and deal with the consequences of interacting with the consumer/user. Then you have everyone else that simply says - not going to happen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 58943, post: 735251"] Forums are tough places. Often unforgiving. More often than not with a small handful of disruptive/destructive people. A lot of developers are also this way. Often they will show up on forums to promote, talk about or support their products and eventually they all seem to get dismayed and disappear. Anyone that has lurked around wilders for decades knows that many years ago there were probably a 100 or more well known developers, support people or engineers from a wide range of firms on that forum. Today they're all largely gone and what's left are people complaining why XYZ runs bad on Windows XP and so forth. There are 'safe' forums where pros and devs usually regress. Vendor forums. Official support forums with extreme moderation. Engineering and development specific forums. Enterprise/Corporate IT forums, etc. Private pro/dev Facebook groups have become prevalent. I think that's where a lot of developers/engineers/personnel regressed to and you can't really slight them for it. They don't have time to deal with the inevitable attacks and dramas that come interacting with the general public who are universally disliked to be dealt with by most pros and devs for a wide variety of reasons. TLDR; Basically, you have a few brave souls that venture into the wilderness and deal with the consequences of interacting with the consumer/user. Then you have everyone else that simply says - not going to happen. [/QUOTE]

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