Who is going to host a good DNN forum?  It's been a long time now with these forums and, not trying to be rude, they are horrible.  As the main method for people to get support and share ideas I would think having solid forums would be a high priority.  Any takers to volunteer to host a good forum?

I think it's great if people want to make core forums..and make them better...I'm all for that.  But in the meantime, lets use some existing forums that work and have a usable SEARCH function for finding information.  I seem to get a critical error most times I try AFTER filling out that messy form.

People are not using these forums and it's absolutely killing DNN.  I just posted a thread several hours ago and it got viewed only 3 times.  Why has this decision not already been made?  Maybe it has.  I'd search for the thread explaining this but it only frustrates me more.

Enough is enough.

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Using Google to search this site does help.

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I think it would be great.  Maybe have a forum for each of the major versions since there have been so many codebreaking changes.  Might take awhile but if we keep pinging this thread maybe people will start to visit the new forum (especially if it's more useable).  It won't have the "benefit" of all the older posts but then this forum really doesn't either.  I can't search it for anything without getting an error.

I can't believe after they advertise the benefactor program (which should be bringing in some money) how the support has just gone.  The momentum is gone.  What happened?  Something as basic as forums.  It's necessary!

Maybe the actual developers have given up on DNN.  It may be on it last legs.  Sites like DNN-Modules (the old ByDesign people) no longer even have a messageboard - they can't deal with the support requests.  They don't answer emails.  The big players seem to have disappeared.  Is anyone even serious about DNN or have they quietly decided it's not worth the investment?

It would be nice to have a place where people talked about DNN and questions could get answered to spur further module development.  But these forums on THE dotnetnuke site make me think the team doesn't want this kind of conversation anymore and don't want to invest time into helping people use the architecture.

I do think you should wait and see if there is any interest.  If no developers or core team members even respond to this thread...my guess is it's too late and won't be worth the effort.

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