N O V
11
2009

so long...

I may not be the most active member of the Arch community but with almost 1100 posts on the bbs and well over two years being active in #archlinux, I’d like to think I’ve done my part. Recently I realized that I’ve grown tired of reading and answering the same questions over and over again. Quite honestly, I’m not sure how the Arch devs and active supporters don’t just crack and disappear more often than they do.

In the three years I’ve used Arch many things have changed — especially the community. The increasing popularity has attracted many users who simply are not prepared to use what Arch gives them. I’m tired of holding their hands. I’m tired of watching other people hold their hands. I’ve been slain by the help vampire.

Consider this a resignation as an active Arch community member. Not goodbye, more like ‘keep in touch’. I’ll still be around on the bbs and I’m sure I’ll be stopping in on irc every now and again, but much less often. Feel free to shoot me an email or hit me up on github. I’ll be keeping tabs on your websites too, so keep those updates coming. If you aren’t in my blogroll, send me your site so I can add it.

Oh, and since I’m still using Arch I’m also still actively developing slurpy so any bug reports or feature requests are more than welcome on the github page.

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Discussion

sorry to see you leaving but at 18:51:40 UTC 2009-11-18, you’re still on IRC ;-)

solsTiCe  posted on Nov. 18th, '09

I’ll still be around, just not as often. By the way, thanks for visiting my site when it was a broken mess! :D

randy  posted on Nov. 18th, '09

I’ve only been a member of arch for a few months (and am guilty of making some of those problematic posts myself) but I have also noticed the deteriorating quality of posts which are asking for help. I think its understandable that you’ve given up.

On a unrelated note (which is what brought me to your site), I just tried slurpy for the first time and its very cool.

opothehippo  posted on Dec. 13th, '09

I absolutely agree with you on this one, which is why I won’t even bother starting to post or answer any questions. One more thing, I know that Arch has blown up and currently have an infestation of lemmings, but like all popular trends they will all go the way of the DoDo once Google Chrome OS comes out. Anyway, thanks for all the help you did give. Cheers, -VB (ViRaLNeXxUS)

Victor  posted on Dec. 13th, '09

I’m glad there are some folks out there who agree with me. It’s really frustrating, especially on IRC, to sit through the same stupid questions over and over again that have been documented to death on the wiki.

like all popular trends they will all go the way of the DoDo once Google Chrome OS comes out

I hope you’re right.

randy  posted on Dec. 14th, '09

Like what you did here with the comments

miles  posted on Jan. 28th, '10

Thanks miles. Thanks for breaking them too :D

randy  posted on Jan. 29th, '10

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