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  Is there any active development community? Mark McDougall <msmcdoug@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 17:04 -0700
    Re: Is there any active development community? Mark McDougall <msmcdoug@gmail.com> - 2015-10-18 19:22 -0700
      Re: Is there any active development community? Selwyn Froggitt <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-10-19 01:10 -0700
    Re: Is there any active development community? Hanno Foest <hurga-news2@tigress.com> - 2015-10-19 17:03 +0200
      Re: Is there any active development community? 1alvinalbrecht1@gmail.com - 2015-10-19 08:17 -0700
    Re: Is there any active development community? Guesser <alistair@zxnet.co.uk> - 2015-10-19 16:04 +0100
      Re: Is there any active development community? Hanno Foest <hurga-news2@tigress.com> - 2015-10-19 17:17 +0200
    Re: Is there any active development community? Mark McDougall <msmcdoug@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 03:40 -0700

#4006 — Is there any active development community?

Hi all,

I'm completely new to the ZX Spectrum and am currently working on a Spectrum-related project for which I have a few technical questions.

What is the current go-to place for this type of discussion? Is it here?

I've tried WorldOfSpectrum but after registering, I still can't post, nor respond to others'. Attempting to email the webmaster via the link crashes. That aside, the forum software in use looks half-baked and, I suspect, a real pig to use - why don't they upgrade to some decent forum software??? Especially since they admit they have issues that are "hard to fix".

The IRC channel appears to be completely dead. The last daily logs are back in 2014. So I can only presume that's long gone?

Are there any other sites/forums/etc? Or is this group _the_ place now?

Regards,

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#4007

On Monday, 19 October 2015 11:04:53 UTC+11, Mark McDougall  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm completely new to the ZX Spectrum and am currently working on a Spectrum-related project for which I have a few technical questions.
> 
> What is the current go-to place for this type of discussion? Is it here?
> 
> I've tried WorldOfSpectrum but after registering, I still can't post, nor respond to others'. Attempting to email the webmaster via the link crashes. That aside, the forum software in use looks half-baked and, I suspect, a real pig to use - why don't they upgrade to some decent forum software??? Especially since they admit they have issues that are "hard to fix".
> 
> The IRC channel appears to be completely dead. The last daily logs are back in 2014. So I can only presume that's long gone?
> 
> Are there any other sites/forums/etc? Or is this group _the_ place now?
> 
> Regards,

OK, I see I had to be approved before I could post. No mention of that on the site that I could see. Still, my question stands...

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#4008

On Monday, 19 October 2015 03:22:44 UTC+1, Mark McDougall  wrote:
> On Monday, 19 October 2015 11:04:53 UTC+11, Mark McDougall  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm completely new to the ZX Spectrum and am currently working on a Spectrum-related project for which I have a few technical questions.
> > 
> > What is the current go-to place for this type of discussion? Is it here?
> > 
> > I've tried WorldOfSpectrum but after registering, I still can't post, nor respond to others'. Attempting to email the webmaster via the link crashes. That aside, the forum software in use looks half-baked and, I suspect, a real pig to use - why don't they upgrade to some decent forum software??? Especially since they admit they have issues that are "hard to fix".
> > 
> > The IRC channel appears to be completely dead. The last daily logs are back in 2014. So I can only presume that's long gone?
> > 
> > Are there any other sites/forums/etc? Or is this group _the_ place now?
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> OK, I see I had to be approved before I could post. No mention of that on the site that I could see. Still, my question stands...

The WOS website has gone to the dogs as far as I can see. A real shame.

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#4009

Am 19.10.2015 02:04 schrieb Mark McDougall:

> What is the current go-to place for this type of discussion? Is it here?
>
> I've tried WorldOfSpectrum but after registering, I still can't post, nor respond to others'.

The site changed owners and switched to a different forum software some 
time ago. The transition didn't go too well, to put it mildly. And I 
liked the old forum software better. But things seem to be improving, if 
slowly. People are still posting.

There's a smaller section at http://www.sinclairzxworld.com/ too.

> The IRC channel appears to be completely dead. The last daily logs are back in 2014. So I can only presume that's long gone?

It sometimes works, the logging doesn't. But since it's not reliable, 
it's unlikely to attract a critical mass of chatters for meaningful 
conversation.

Because some of the German ZXTEAM (ZX81 club) members wanted to try the 
ZX-IRC client, I set up a dedicated IRC server at irc.zxq.de 6667. Login 
to common public servers took too long because of the MOTD being too big 
for the ZX81 :)   The server software is a bit limited, but sufficient 
for conversation.

Feel free to use it as a replacement for irc.worldofspectrum.org with 
the same channels #general and #technical. But I guess you need to be 
very patient for other chatters to show up. A webirc interface is 
available at http://webirc.zxq.de/ - defaults to channel #zxteam, change 
as appropriate.

Hanno

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#4012

On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 9:03:11 AM UTC-6, Hanno Foest wrote:
> The site changed owners and switched to a different forum software some 
> time ago. The transition didn't go too well, to put it mildly. And I 
> liked the old forum software better. But things seem to be improving, if 
> slowly.

The WOS server actually crashed and died which led to an emergency migration to another server well ahead of anything being ready.  What you have is partial restoration of the original site which will not see any further functionality restored.  Instead WOS 2.0 is being worked on and when that is ready it will replace the partially functioning site.

The forum looks pretty good when one of the stylish scripts made available in the forums is applied.  A greasemonkey script fixes some links so that you can, eg, see screenshots when browsing the database.

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#4010

On 19/10/2015 01:04, Mark McDougall wrote:
> The IRC channel appears to be completely dead. The last daily logs are back in 2014. So I can only presume that's long gone?
The WoS IRC server was dead for all practical purposes for years before 
it was finally put out of its misery by the old server breaking and 
subsequent migration.
For active and on topic irc you are probably best on #zx in 
coldfront.net. Full disclosure: I happen to be the owner of that channel :)

> Are there any other sites/forums/etc? Or is this group _the_ place now?
This group hasn't been "the place" for a decade... Sad to say the place 
with the most activity these are the various fragmented barely usable 
facebook groups :(

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#4011

Am 19.10.2015 17:04 schrieb Guesser:

> This group hasn't been "the place" for a decade... Sad to say the place
> with the most activity these are the various fragmented barely usable
> facebook groups :(

Fragmentation is a big issue indeed... I'm not even aware of any 
Facebook groups.

Hanno

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#4013

Thanks for the responses guys, I'll check those options out!

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