I will not really answer for PHP vs. Perl thoughts, as we can not really affect this competition.
But I think Perl is still used on a lot websites (even on serious ones), and still has a lot users.
I think forum activity decrease is not related to Perl vs. PHP war.
Also note, GT just dropped PHP support for 3.x GT apps.
Lower forum activity could also come from the fact, that there are less companies doing business on the internet, compared to a few years earlier, but I don't think, that would affect so much the forum activity.
I think we would be close to the truth, if we would seek the problem around disappointed users, who don't get (enough) answer to their problem.
Links 2.x is _stable_ and runs out of the box in most cases. The plugins area is well stocked, and automated. There are many, many messages detailing any minor problem or how-to.I would be glad, if that would be true.
But I'm afraid it's not.
I saw several unanswered posts on the forum, back to 2002, 2003, or 2004. That's could result as many disappointed users.
And in last 1-2 years, GT staff seems to show low activity on the forum, answering only the most important (mainly bugfix) questions. I saw even Pre-Sale question which was left unanswered. That would also mean some lost potential users...
The CPAN idea and the "Got solution" marking system for threads are targeting the goal to increase forum activity.
But for example, I was not even got any GT staff reply about, if they like the "Got solution" marking system for threads idea or not.
We, plugin developers, moderators, forum helpers, and even people looking for solutions would get a lot help with this small feature, as everybody could visually see (without reading each post) which problem was solved and which not. This could also show the number of satisfied users. This would be an important feature to implement, and the attached rating system would result race condition between forum users, as they would be interested to give successful help to others...
As the bottom line of forum activity thought, while I would like if it would be true, that silence means no disappointed users. However I feel the opposite.
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But I think Perl is still used on a lot websites (even on serious ones), and still has a lot users.
I think forum activity decrease is not related to Perl vs. PHP war.
Also note, GT just dropped PHP support for 3.x GT apps.
Lower forum activity could also come from the fact, that there are less companies doing business on the internet, compared to a few years earlier, but I don't think, that would affect so much the forum activity.
I think we would be close to the truth, if we would seek the problem around disappointed users, who don't get (enough) answer to their problem.
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Don't misread a decrease in forum activity as a bad thing. Links 2.x is _stable_ and runs out of the box in most cases. The plugins area is well stocked, and automated. There are many, many messages detailing any minor problem or how-to.
But I'm afraid it's not.
I saw several unanswered posts on the forum, back to 2002, 2003, or 2004. That's could result as many disappointed users.
And in last 1-2 years, GT staff seems to show low activity on the forum, answering only the most important (mainly bugfix) questions. I saw even Pre-Sale question which was left unanswered. That would also mean some lost potential users...
The CPAN idea and the "Got solution" marking system for threads are targeting the goal to increase forum activity.
But for example, I was not even got any GT staff reply about, if they like the "Got solution" marking system for threads idea or not.
We, plugin developers, moderators, forum helpers, and even people looking for solutions would get a lot help with this small feature, as everybody could visually see (without reading each post) which problem was solved and which not. This could also show the number of satisfied users. This would be an important feature to implement, and the attached rating system would result race condition between forum users, as they would be interested to give successful help to others...
As the bottom line of forum activity thought, while I would like if it would be true, that silence means no disappointed users. However I feel the opposite.
Best regards,
Webmaster33
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