motorollin wrote:
@Wayne
I don't think anybody said it would be easy...
amigaworld.net already works with mobile browsers out of the box. Something like that for amiga.org would be nice.
Witness what I took as a seemingly snarky suggestion that it's not only easy but an accusation that I'm somehow lacking for not already having done it.
As for easy or not, in the context of my last reply, you now help to prove my point. It wouldn't be THAT difficult, it's simply that -- wherein this site is concerned -- I feel very trapped.
- If I make it modern and useful, the 5% of Amiga users {bleep} and go to moobunny anonymously crying.
- If I leave it be, people complain that it's not modern enough for their cell phones.
- The code is so old it can't be upgraded (the upgrade paths are long gone).
--- sigh... nevermind, this is getting depressing.
I just wish there were some young, enthusiastic person out there willing to invest in the site -- They spend more on Amiga parts on e-bay -- then take it and do what they want with it.
As for me, between coding burnout and the paradox that this site has become (between steadfast Amiga curmudgeons and those that want new features), I'm just in a holding pattern, hoping that I don't have to reinvent the wheel when PHP4 is discontinued.
I've been doing this for 15 years now and I guess I'm just totally burned out. Not only have I seen 4 owners come and disappear, I've seen the community shrink from thousands of enthusiasts to *maybe* dozens of hardened tinkers.
I've loved doing it, because it's provided a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction over the years, but frankly, I'd rather be riding than coding or playing with computers any day.
If I could only find a job that paid me to ride and write about it.
Wayne