How did this forum get so popular?

[hon]

How did this forum get so popular?

and again.. i don't know if this is the right place to ask this because there are so many forums and i don't know where they go.

[rhsunderground]

i (and i know others have as well) found the forum through the javascript source. some come here by word of mouth. others come through other channels of advertising and partnership. how did you come here? you probably weren't the only one.

[JPnyc]

It's the free cheese.

[HazardTW]

I think I got here through google, read a few threads, mostly about how tables were evil.

I first thought there was just a bunch of arrogant web developers that thought anyone using methods not as 'cool' as theirs were inferior human beings.

I almost said something about that, but decided I better learn a little bit before opening my mouth, so I read, and read, and read some more.

My conclusion was that the people here are very knowledgeable and go out of their way to help anyone.

This place and people have helped me immensely, if you are interested in learning and getting help, you will bookmark this forum :).

[hon]

i (and i know others have as well) found the forum through the javascript source. some come here by word of mouth. others come through other channels of advertising and partnership. how did you come here? you probably weren't the only one.

i came here from htmlgoodies.com they had a support link here.

[Ultimater]

I found javascript.internet.com through either google or yahoo and I found these forums through javascript.internet.com.

I don't seem to remember when I switched to google.

[buntine]

SEO, baby. ;)

[baks]

+ where is no activation when register

[KDLA]

How I got here: Google was my friend.

Glad you enjoy it and find it helpful. :)

[RivkaS]

i came here from htmlgoodies.com they had a support link here.
dito

[JPnyc]

Come to think of it, I don't recall how I first found this forum.

[hon]

Who owns that site?

[nshiell]

Back in about 1999 I said I wanted to learn JavaScript and a friend showed me javascript.internet.com. thebn they added thes forum on the javascript.internet.com homepage

[LeeU]

Who owns that site?
Jupitermedia Corporation

[Sunny G]

It's the free cheese.
I still have yet to see some of that cheese;)

[JPnyc]

Me too.

[rhsunderground]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Swiss_cheese_cubes.jpg/600px-Swiss_cheese_cubes.jpg

[JPnyc]

That cheese is no good. Got holes in it.

[hon]

Jupitermedia Corporation

but, which admin is it?

[buntine]

Well, the corporation owns it... So (I would assume) none of the Admins could claim true ownership over the forums!

[mlim]

How big is its membership ?

[JPnyc]

Well, the corporation owns it... So (I would assume) none of the Admins could claim true ownership over the forums!
and you would be correct

[LeeU]

How big is its membership ?
You can find all that information at the bottom of the home page (http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/index.php).

[hon]

How did you all get to be admins if there wasn't a admin in the first place to promote you to admin! :eek: :confused: :p

[LeeU]

Well, it all started in a land far, far away ... whoops, wrong story. In the beginning, there were no admins ... whoops, sorry again. ;->

I'm pretty sure that when Jupitermedia started it, whoever was appointed in charge of the forums then appointed admins. Why is it that important?

[hon]

i dunno,

How hard is it to become a mod on the site?

[Seawitch]

You can find all that information at the bottom of the home page (http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/index.php).

'Never trust statistics unless you fiddled the figures yourself!!':p

[JPnyc]

i dunno,

How hard is it to become a mod on the site?
not that difficult. Ever see "a Man called horse"?:D

[hon]

Nope.

Maybe i should stay active so i could maybe become a mod some day. :) :p

[LeeU]

Maybe i should stay active so i could maybe become a mod some day. :) :p
That would probably be the best plan.

[EricG1793]

I was Google searching Dell versus HP discussions, and I found the one here! I decided to register so I could debate Dell versus HP myself. Then I ventured in to all the other threads here. However the most popular forum that I know of of ffdowloads.com. There are 1,182 pages of members there. That site uses vBulletin just like it does here so many things are similar with the interface. That's not as many as here; there are twice as many here I think. I'm subscribed to the same amount of threads here as I am there. However the people there are really... I don't know what the correct word to use is... fast? For every ten notifications of a post to a subscribed thread I get from there, I only get one from here. That's why I've been less active here lately- I've been forgetting!

[\\.\]

I typed in webdeveloper and this was one of the returns.

[ghippleh]

I got here through google, after all it does have a really high alexa rank of 8031.