From: Wojtek Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Traffic down? Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:00 -0700 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $19.95 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p24707b51165f8c57128b6cc7e39b79f0ca8b4ea225642340.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.03.00-gb Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.dougwise.org!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news.ecp.fr!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news6 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5554 Peter Duniho wrote : > On 6/21/11 11:56 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote: >> I'm recently back to clj*. >> I took several months break from it. >> The traffic seems down. >> Is this a summertime lull? > > As others have noted, Usenet in general is suffering a decline. > > This has been especially true since about a year ago, when Microsoft decided > to abandon them in favor of the MSDN forums, and their close relationship > with the Stack Overflow web site. While Java is not a technology Microsoft > cares much about, since Stack Overflow does in fact carry a fair amount of > Java-related traffic, their promotion of that web site has the side-effect of > also shifting traffic from this newsgroup to there. > > Traffic has been declining even before that, so one can't blame the entire > phenomenon on Microsoft, but their policies certainly had a hand in > accelerating the process over the last year or so. > > I haven't looked to see if there's been a similar decline across other > non-tech newsgroups. It's entirely possible that similar factors are causing > a decline across the board. > > Pete I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at all anymore, they have discontinued NNTP. So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people might not want to pay... -- Wojtek :-)