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All the scn.sap.com communities have been deleted, can sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com be far behind? Yes, yes, I've read the propaganda, all the old content has been "archived", but the effect is the same as in Raiders Of The Lost Ark...
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The SQL Anywhere team has (almost?) always followed the Golden Rule: "Watcom Does Things The Way They Should Be Done." Given that proverb and the new SCN user experience real-world lab, I can only conclude that the current forum needs to stay. A (semi-)official statement would be worthwhile, dear folks from Waterloo...:) |
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FWIW, it seems that other SCN users have noticed us:) Coffee Corner: SAP has another "forum" in the domain! (Possibly the new SAP Community with all its tags misses one: "envy") |
Oh my god - I don't hope so!
FWIW, I have never asked a question on SCN but answered a few, even in the past weeks - it's rather irritating that those are archived now...
I have once clearly understood that the old NNTP contents was archived and not migrated to this forum, although that had once be planned - it seemed that NNTP postings and the "user concept" were rather incompatible to a Q/A format.
But I do not understand why the SCN questions are not simply migrated to the tagged space - apparently as the users are migrated. It doesn't encourage participation if one's quite new contents is silently archived.
I certainly see some usefulness in gamification, but that migration is beyond my understanding - do I now have to "go on a quest" to find previous contributions?
I'm sure you have better things to do, unless you were planning to republish what you find in some other, safer, format.
The really scary part of all this? That SAP heavily promoted gamification with all the enthusiasm that is now being devoted to tagging. When that enthusiasm wanes (which I predict will happen quite soon), all the new content will be archived down the memory hole with the next fad redesign.
But... I'll not be fooled again... that "new content" will not contain one single contribution from me.
The only contribution I am willing to make to the new community is feedback about it (more critisizm than praise). As long as this forum is alive, my time is much better invested here.
Got you!: Breck, apparently you cannot stop helping folks - even on the new SCrapN site:)