Donny Mack

Hello All,

This is a community feedback post regarding the .NET Junkies Bloggers - so feel free to be brutally honest.

Basically I’ve been the “Moderator” of our WebLogs as far as who gets a Blog (yes we do deny people) and who can maintain a Blog based off of what they post (yes we have kicked people). I don’t want to get into details on how I judge this – I just want to know how we stack up and how we’re doing?

We know there are some issues with the runtime we use (very small) so please don’t post about that. These bugs are being worked on and will be fixed soon! We promise!

I look forward to your feedback!

Thanks!

Donny Mack

Hello All,

SQLJunkies Newsgroups

I just put up the beta release of our new newsgroups application. Now I need some feedback. What newsgroups do you want to see on here? I have all the SQL Server newsgroups, but would you like to see more? Such as ADO.NET, Windows CE SQL? Etc.

If you try to go to the newsgroups within 20 minutes of this post you wont see much. The archving mech. only fires every 20 minutes.

We added some nifty new features:

- Alerting: If you are a junkie and you don't like spam from newsgroups then let us take care of it. We have implemented an alerting system so now you can go to a post, any post (whether you posted it or not) and wire yourself up to get an email notification whenever the thread is active again. We deliver it from our server to you based on your registered email address.

- Forwarding: Now you can forward good posts to friends

- Rating: rating is used because all threads are downloaded and static pages are created (for performance) based on your rating after a set amount of time all badly or not rated threads are purged from the system so we only keep threads that actually give good information. Additionally, these ratings will be used in the new Search functionality that will be launched next.

We have a lot of other new features we're going to be implmenting in the next release but we wanted to start testing now so please try to break it, and post any bugs to the bugs forum found here: http://dotnetjunkies.com/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=4933

Just got an email from Scott who saw my post on Searching and mentioned another really cool edition. Searching within blogs themselves. For any one blog you can go to blogName/search.aspx and search the individual blog. I'll be adding links within blogs today to their search.

I just implemented beta 1 of our new newgroup archiving system. http://www.sqljunkies.com/newsgroups/ - each newsgroup has a link for the archive next to it.

We are not implementing searching capibilities at this time, we may in the future. We're going to let Google and other crawlers take care of the searching, but there is a lot of valuable information there we hope you all we be able to use.

We went back as far as we could for the newsgroup servers we are pulling from at this time, as you'll see they don't archive themselves, which is why we started. A lot of them only go back 3 months or so. We're going to be doing a weekly (maybe daily) pull of posts. Note, the primary newsgroup interface still pulls live posts.

Enjoy

Check it out: http://sqljunkies.com/newsgroups/ 

This is Beta 1 and more functionality will be coming including archiving and searching.

Special thanks to Wim Hollebrandse for helping us with the newsgroups inplementation

http://www.wimdows.net/newsgroups/newsgroups.aspx