What is on Your Mind?

Yesterday I took some time off and Google'd the top UNIX and then Linux forums to compare and contrast them; and I went and took a look at all of them, one at a time.

I admit that I am guilty to being biased as "the inventor" , but this forum is a stunningly beautiful and easy to navigate site compared to every tech forum I looked at. This forum has slowly transformed into a kind of beautiful "technical work-of-art" and in my opinion, this forum is far superior to any other forum related to UNIX and Linux in both look, feel and functionality.

Yes, there are a few forums which are more active, but those forums are mostly eye-sores, in my opinion and are using very outdated web tech and are not HTML5 compliant. Also, since I purged all non-active users with no posts and not active over al year, we don't have inflated numbers of users here like other forums and sites who never purge fake, bot created accounts and/or dormant / inactive accounts.

Even though we have transformed UNIX.COM to a clean, modern, and IMHO, beautiful forum; I still have plans to do more transformation in 2019. Many of you have provided great ideas and suggested and it is because of you, the community, and this site is so great. This site is not some cookie-cutter forum based on the same back-end CMS with a custom "skin". This site becoming a very functional digital work-of-art, from the backend server to the front end

Thank you for making UNIX.COM a very good community.

Quality is more important than quantity (for me), and it has always been our goal at UNIX.COM to have the highest signal-to-noise ratio of top quality technical information in the forumverse; and I think we are still on track for that goal.

Thank you.

Sincerely, Your Digital Artist,

Neo

Hello Neo,

Yes, a BIG THANKS to everyone for making this forum GREAT place for learning/sharing. Let us all keep it up (I don't consider my day complete if I didn't login to UNIX.com and don't see what's happening here)

A special THANKS to Neo you too, for doing GREAT JOB by long day and night HARD WORK for enhancement of forums, you have fully changed the look (in and out) of forums and made it looking modernized, GOD bless you and should give you strength too.


PS: I am checking in between (at least once in 3 to 4 days) googling questions and TRUST me our google rating has improved a lot I am seeing many answers from UNIX.com on TOP results showing.

Thanks,
R. Singh

Thanks Ravinder,

Yeah, our traffic is going up again, yesterday I had to login and double the max_connections for mysql, because our traffic is increasing a lot.

Thanks again for your great ideas for forum modernization, Ravinder.

Well done!

I agree...

But for me, I believe the visual aspect doesnt prime on ease to use when you are a technician or a developper in need of help o solution, its more how easy it is to find what you are looking for and how fast you find the good information, here I think we are superior to other forums, as our mods wont let pass things non relevant, either help in correcting the code proposed, or after suggest a better alternative and more, tag as solved and later close the thread so it does not go on and on and deviates from its original topic. Finding the good information here is far the fastest if not the case then the other forums show up, for me that is more due to how the originator titled his thread and how relevant it is with in fact the true thread subject, and here I see perhaps a possible amelioration, we mods should think if the title is relevant with the subject/issue... and if not quite or ambiguous should change the title and not just correct typos... I do it sometimes but only when totally OT or weird as not sure it the owner will find himself with the new title... ouch late for work...
All the best

Yes, there is no doubt that in today's world, it takes it all to be the best; and there is no doubt that the quality of the moderation and skill of the team is more important than the just the look and feel.

That's one reason I've devoted so much of my time to modernizing the forums to insure our amazing team members also have the best possible platform to thrive as a community. Sometimes change brings stress, but we have weathered the changes well and are doing just fine, I think.

I feel like I've accomplished that over the past year, especially when I take time off to look around the forumverse and see what else is out there.

Thanks for the comments and ideas, Victor.