It shut down because the owner at the time lost interest in keeping it up and was seemingly unwilling or unable to transfer it to someone else. The forum was pretty popular — not hundreds of posts a day, but it was rarely quiet for long periods of time.
Past success is not an indicator of present success; the internet landscape has changed since then and internet forums in general are less popular than they used to be. That said, results so far are encouraging and I believe as more questions and other content is added it will eventually reach that critical mass. My focus right now is in building a user base and offering reasons to hang out. My most recent effort in that regard is to offer tools that sysadmins can use to make their life easier. I launched a tool to generate configs for pretty urls[1] and next up are some tools to ease deployment of complicated extensions like VisualEditor and Scribunto (including dependencies like Parsoid or the luasandbox PHP extension). [1] https://mwusers.org/apps/pretty-url-generator -- Ryan Schmidt Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 9, 2017, at 9:43 AM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:10 PM Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> As such, I have launched a new support forum for MediaWiki[1]. It aims to >> make it easier to not only ask for and receive support compared to the >> methods I outlined above, but also hopes to serve as a hub where people who >> run their own MediaWiki installations can connect, share tips, and network. >> > > Wasn't there a forum like this years ago? IIRC, it never reached critical > mass and shut down. > > -Chad > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
