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I'm with auld and Niels too, but cfx and flipcode are dead, gamedev and devmasters are not really scene-centered. in4k is nice as intro knowledge resource, but not much more.
So the question is what the best choice might be... and scene.org forums smell like dead fish imo...

usually you can find all required information on the net and there's not much to discuss about.
so forums are frequented by people who either can't use google, don't understand the information given, don't want to debug themselves or simply don't know how to start off - and that's why most forums are basically dead.
now go ahead, start another one...

I think the general feeling here is that half of you think this forum will just wither into nothing and the other half is happy that someone is making a resource for the beginners. I'm just taking this from experience: my google-fu isn't really that bad, but when I first began my coding adventures all I could find were mode 13h tutorials from 1992 and articles about the demoscene vaguely relating to the actual coding involved. I realize that a lot of the scene comes from creative stuff within yourself, so in that respect you're right. There isn't a whole lot to discuss there. However, the actual coding of a compression technique etc isn't exactly a dead topic, nor is it static in the sense that someone can just write an article. Articles are great, but in a forum, we can quickly pose questions, point out errors that get corrected quickly in the post, and even improve on what was originally said. Generally speaking, the forum is divided into threads for each "article topic", and the general algorithm and discussion on that topic takes place in that thread. IMHO this is better than an article or just trying to google endlessly hoping you'll find an article on how a 4k synthesizer works. When you mix people that know what they're doing with new people that have a lot of fire about what they're learning, you can go places.

Still, much props to the scene.org and other forums, but I felt that they lack categorization and some much needed features.

-cheers.

Hellfire: for basic coding and stuff that's true, but for coding demo effects you need to understand how the effect works, and quite often how to cheat and get the same effect. That kind of info is a bit harder to come by, and a forum is a good place to get it.

psonice, indeed, and there're plenty of esoteric programming topics in the demoscene (like 4k synths or tiny procedural generation stuff) that won't get discussed anywhere else.

imalike this idea and imagonna register on imapixel.com to prove it! imakeep your site bookmarked and imahope it is a big success in future.

There are already too many coding sites. Face it: your forum won't be any better than any of the resources already available, like DBF-GVY, in4k wiki, articles written by several sceners (iq, kb, to name a few that come to my mind with interesting articles)... but if you really feel you can help someone then do it.

I personally don't see how a forum can help, I believe you learn more reading, thinking and trying, and so getting the answers yourself than making questions... (if you don't get an answer yourself it probably means you are not ready yet for what you are trying to).

But of course just do what you feel you have to do jojodi, time will say. Still I would love to have a centralized repository of articles to learn from.

I actually started a project to do just that (more or less) a while ago (link for the curious). I had to put things on hold for a bit though due to work, and the fact that it didn't seem like a whole lot of people were interested in it. I may have been wrong though.

yay everybody install joomla and dance :D

mrwb, yep, something like that would be cool. The only important thing for me is that making changes to the index is easy, and that it's easy to make the layout of the articles (for pictures, even videos).

still, there ARE many of these places and its not too hard to find what you're looking for as long as you have any clue about what you want to do and a little tiny bit how

i agree with hellfire.

My english is quite terrible, I recognize it. Yet I think "_a_ centralized repository" is quite opposite to "there ARE many places"...

and I do quite agree with hellfire too

@jojodi: I just can give one example: ADA coding forum. It is by far the most frequented and most active of all ADA forums.

Great job z5_ for reviving it to such glory :)