Whatever Happened To The Real Amiga Community.

[Cammy]

I've been losing interest in Amiga.org for months. Too many topics that either don't seem to be about Amigas at all, or threads with silly polls seem to get way more attention and replies than any constructive Amiga threads. The reason myself and a lot of other people I talk to in private don't want to post here is because it just seems pointless when our hard work or enthusiasm for new development is met with negativity and ignorance.

I think your brother's friends are right about this forum.

[Cammy]

It's not just the polls...

I guess I can't put my finger on it. Perhaps it's the lack of interest or support for any new Amiga developments.

It seems like Amiga.org has become the joke forum of the Amiga community. I guess it could be worse.

[Cammy]

Plaz, I think you got it right. I just find hardly anything worth contributing to now, and it certainly seems like the same topics keep being brought up time and time again. The useless threads just keep getting bumped, but when something new or useful gets announced it slips under the radar. Take Quick Videos for example, for the first time in forever we finally have a new video editing program for Amiga systems with a nice, easy to use GUI, and yet the thread gets a single reply and is never seen again.

Compared to last Christmas, this year's Festive Game Making Competition has been a complete failure due to lack of interest or participation. I wasn't sure about running it again this year because of the way the forums have been going lately, but I did anyway since a few people said I should. This will probably be the last time I ever try something like this. Either the community just doesn't care anymore, or a lot of people don't like me personally. I don't think this is somewhere I fit in anymore, if I ever did. I'm not ready for the old folks home yet.

[Cammy]

I don't have a problem with people having off-topic threads, that's not what I intended to allude to. It's just because of so many of those threads that the less active Amiga-related topics get bumped out of the New Posts list or the front page and a lot of people miss out on them. Again, I'm not complaining, just trying to figure out why things seem to have gone downhill or slowing down lately.

I'm sorry if I take this Amiga stuff seriously, I don't have much else in my life. It's important to me, and I've wanted for years to make new software and games for Amiga systems. It's been my dream for so long, and holding onto that dream is the only thing that keeps me going.