Peter J. Boettcher — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:39:14 +0000

I think it should stay consolidated, if it was to be broken up it shouldn't be done by language/technology (ie. Perl/CF/PHP/ASP etc), otherwise you would end up with 10+ forums just dedicated to server-side languages! I would break it up by Server OS (ie. UNIX/LINUX/Windows/SUN etc), while it's true many of the languages I listed are OS independant the vast majority are used on specific OS due to ease of use and effeciency.

Mark Hensler — Fri, 03 Aug 2001 00:48:23 +0000

It's up to Chad.

My opinion is that I think it would be a pain to figure out how to split the posts if we split up the forum. We would probably end up having to make a 'Resevoure' forum that held all the old posts from the combined forums.

mjames — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 19:52:58 +0000

I see your point, but I'm not sure if I agree with it. I would be all for a slightly different forum organization scheme, but that's not up to me. Mark or Chad, what do you think?

Andrew — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 18:31:50 +0000

right. my point was that when perl had it's own forum, it was quite active. now the server side scripting forum is dead in comparison, with only a few posts per day at best. perhaps the reason WHY it is dead is due to the structure of the forum

mjames — Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:09:34 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I believe additional forums would be added and larger ones would be separated only if those larger forums consistently had large amounts of activity. Until that happens, I think things should stay as they are. No one wants a half dozen dead forums.