[AccessD] AccessD never changes

As A mostly lurker, question asker and sometime question answerer I'll chime
in on this discussion. I learned about this list from Rocky, a fellow Access
User Group of San Diego member. When I first signed up many years ago there
was lots of interchange and debate on some really interesting questions. I
learned a lot. Being a lone developer, aside from our user group I don't get
to discuss Access as a development environment with too many people. This
was great.

As has been pointed out the list seems to have lost the Q/A, technical
interchange focus. Also the format is antiquated. I have been spending more
time on the LinkedIn Professional Microsoft Access Developers' Network
(PMADN) group. The format is great as it is organized by discussion so if
you're not interested you don't need to look. As can be seem from this
group, PMADN, there is still quite a bit of technical interchange on Access
and development.

It is possible that the technical discussion has moved on to forums like
PMADN,  UtterAccess , or StackOverFlow where personality and community
aren't the focus but technical discussion and question answer is. New Access
folks are looking for information, not who we are or what we used to do.

My thoughts.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth Ismert
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:53 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [AccessD] AccessD never changes

Change is inevitable. Right now, entropy is winning, and AccessD is slowly
fading into background noise.

This is a group using antique technology to serve antique people.
Seriously, is anyone here under 40? I bet very few. Anyone under 30? I'd be
shocked if we had more than a token number.

Nothing I have read in this current conversation indicates that anything has
changed for the positive. As far as I can tell:

* We are still in the long tail of decline, both in overall postings and
on-topic postings.
* The number of active participants is slowly declining

Of course, I am ready to be proven wrong. The people running AccessD can
release numbers showing whether we are trending up or down.

That hasn't happened yet, and probably for good reason.

The facts are depressing.

-Ken
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