But first about me! I am not a professional programmer. I am not a professional web developer. I am a dabbler and I am earnestly trying to learn DNN. I came across DNN a while back and it interested me enough to download it and jump into it. I am trying to learn the DNN module development side. I have good days - I have bad days. I cannot tell you how many times I've changed/coded something and the only way out was a fresh install. It's frustrating but I'm learning bit by bit.
But my biggest frustration and the reason behind this post is overwhelming lack of response from a membership of over five hundred thousand. There are members that respond to posts on a consistent basis. Mr. Washington, Mr. Sellers, Mr. Leupold, Mr. Fabian, as well as others but if you look at the numbers in the forums and do the math, it pathetic. Over 500,000 members and on an average day less that 100 are logged in at any time. As I write this, out of 561,760 members only 32 members are online - 32. Only 0.00005 percent of the membership is currently logged in. Now I realize that one isn't going to log into DNN and stay connected all day but it just seems that at any given moment in time more members should be logged in. I also realize that there are probably thousands of members who logged in, looked around, and have never returned. So the numbers are subject to the stuff numbers are subject to.
The stats for posts themselves are also very poor. The ratio of answers to views for the vast majority of posts is a shame. I would like to see the forum folks add a view that displays the average stats for posts. Things such as number of 0 reply posts, view to reply ratios, percentage of members responding to posts, etc. I believe that the numbers would be surprising.
I know that this post will probably cause some ruffled feathers and angered replies and I apologize if it does but I'm not posting this to attack DNN, or the core team, or anyone else. I'm posting this because it is frustrating when someone like me, who does not have the expertise or skill level that many of you have, posts a question or error issue and gets minimal to zero response. Is it safe to assume then that the vast majority of members viewing but not responding to posts possess the same expertise/skill set as I do?
I someday hope that I will be able to post the answer to a problem and be garnished with all manner of kudos but for now my skill set is more of a hindrance than an asset. I will be moving soon and discovered that the new location has a DNN Users Group. I look forward to becoming a member.
Whew! I feel better now!