What is on Your Mind?

One place I hang around as often as I do here is TEK-TIPS.com. I was most active there in the database parts there but it became very quite lately.
My reason to register there was the same as it was here: showing up often enough in searches and finding good answers.

Seems there is so much good information can be found in Google searches (as compared to years ago), that many people don't need to hang out in forums as much as they used to, from what you guys are posting.

Mostly here, other then google, and vendor closed stuff.
The number of accumulated posts here about well, everything, is amazing.

Other then learning about the unix/unix like operating systems internals, these forums offer real nice programming best practices, language agnostic.

A great place, feels real friendly and close, unlike most communities on the internet.
Human approach, patience, straightforwardness and professionalism makes this number 1 site.

Keep up the good work

Regards
Peasant.

I used to be on tek-tips.com many many moons ago and then it became boring...

... so, it seems all our members just hang our here at UNIX.COM because we are "the best community with the best posts"?

That sounds nice to hear, and my experience is the same (admittedly); but I feel we can be even greater and am interested to find out where other members hang out and why and what we can do better as far as forum features.

My idea is to move toward a taxonomy-based site (over time, not immediately) and I think I will start by writing some code which automatically tags each thread with a tag which represents the forum where the thread was created.

For example, for all threads in "Shell Programming and Scripting" each will have a tag "shell programming", and for all threads in the "Solaris" forum, each thread will have a "solaris" tag and maybe an "operating system" tag.

So, at a minimum, all thread will have at least one tag, automatically.

In that way, we can create any view on any topic based on the tags, which will move us a step-away from being "forum-based" and a step toward being "taxonomy-based".

Apart from a few isolated questions to askubuntu.com or wiki.ubuntu.com I didn't regularly spend much time on other IT / *nix related fora in recent years. Admittedly, as it has become rather quiet in here for some time now, I started to follow / participate unix.stackexchange.com for a few weeks now. Still, unix.com is my favorite place to look for.
I welcome any measures to increase the popularity of this site. That taxonomy-based approach may help here, as long as the look and feel doesn't change dramatically.

Hello Neo,

Yes, I try to hang out in SO(Stack overflow) site. So I check parallel UNIX.com and SO both for my hunger to solve more questions.

Reason for hanging out in other forums: yes, I have to agree that on SO there are more number of users with more questions, as I always mention more questions(sensible/real ones) more we learn. So for me that is 1 of the MAJOR reason(that is why in my previous post I posted same thing too Regarding thoughts for encourage more users to post/participate on UNIX.com site.). Other reason(which I mentioned previously in posts too) they have many competitive stuff like ranks(weekly/monthly/yearly) etc which in some other we could also do, as we all need some kind of encouragement element.

EDIT: missed another MAJOR reason which is they have NEW upcoming technologies with their experts too which helps me and others too for learning them(this point was mention too in mentioned post), if we could create sub forums or TAGS etc for upcoming technologies and can we have experts here we will definitely see more number of users visiting our this GREAT site UNIX.com


Thanks,
R. Singh