Community

Thanks to Scott for the update on .Text. One think I am not sure about, and maybe I am wrong on this.

The fact to split Microsoft bloggers and non microsoft bloggers will create a wall between us.

Why ? Because a lot of people now use a blog reader tool and will subscribe to one or other not both.

My two cents of suggestion.:

1st idea, not making the difference at all but like Robert suggested, having for Microsoft folks a better signature on their posts.
2nd idea, ok for the split, but maybe something like dotnetjunkies (SQL Server blogs and dotnetjunkies blog) creating a different color scheme and a different title for the two sides.

I hope also that Microsoft bloggers will continue to read and comment the questions from the other community side !

Last thing, I can see a link to the two feeds but I can't see any link to the main feed. I have to remove the GroupID querystring manually in the URL.

Personnally I enjoyed when MS guys fusioned with our community. I find a bit sad now the creation of camps. Meanwhile I can understand for the noise, but community is a word which should reunite everybody.

 

4 Comments

  • It's a tough call. I liked Robert's idea about the [MS] or [MSFT] extension, which is also used in the MS newsgroups. Not a lot of MS employees have followed this though.



    Personally I have the mainfeed in my sharpreader so I catch all the blogs here. The independent nature of the site is gone I guess, but in all those years I work with MS software I haven't seen a real 'independent' community for MS' goods.

  • Frans Charles Carroll in my next posts, has some more hard thoughts on the subject, and in some way he's right, and tough sure.

    It should be like he suggest a MSBloggers like GotDotnet used to be and separate from Weblogs.asp.net.

    He's right in the sense Scott developed this tool for free and now MS going to appropriate his idea. Just sad

  • I think that charles fella addresses two things: the free .Text development and that's Scott's problem (personally I don't see the problem, if Scott wants them to use the software for free that's perfectly OK, I'm a BSD-license supporter myself :)) and the merger of non-MS developers and MS developers on a single blog site, which made this site not a community site anymore. And he's right in that last one. However as I said earlier, I don't believe in independent community sites when it comes to MS software, they all simply pass on the MS-marketing poop.

  • Also note, the groups/categories are not done yet. Some cool stuff is coming in a couple of weeks. The seperate feeds are more a placeholder than anything else.



    With all of the complaints in the past (april/may) time frame about the noise on the mainfeed, the traffic has steadily increased.



    My bet is most people still subscribe to the main feed and skip the items they don't want to read.



    -Scott

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