As for "not being able to learn" now that it's private, how do you think we learnt?

Nowadays you all expect tutorials and people to jump at your every question but back in the day it was try, fail, try again, and if you really got stuck hope someone would help you :)

You learnt the hard way, you learnt by yourself without the help of piggybacking off others, and you learnt by doing...

Chris

There are the highs and lows for both sides of the discussion. This community has ample of forums for questions and comments so it's all good.

I think it's a great decision and Admin will see that for themselves by looking at the new level of activity :)

The coders will still be around to help us - have they ever not done that? I think the coders in this community are rather special, they're not just going to stop helping us lot because they now have a private forum which, in all honesty they had elsewhere anyway, least now its here at vborg, so means they'll be hanging round more too on the rest of the board.

All we need now is to make the big boards section private :p

:bunny:

How come i cant see it anymore? (im a coder i think)

As Brad posted, click an install or uninstall link on one of your mods.

What about allowing people to view it, but allowing users not in the Coders usergroup to make threads or posts?

That way we can't bother you guys, but we can still pick up on some of the ideas you guys are bouncing off each other.

Awsome, thanks!! :D

Besides, it's not like we all psot tutorials in there that we don't want to share with those that need them.
We just throw out ideas and discussions and expect to get a tech response, not "release this plix" and "omg soo cool". There's really nothing that can be learnt there - if we want help we post in the PHP forum, if we want to help we post in the Tutorials section.

I stand behind everything amykhar has said, It's nice to beable to have a forum to talk to just other programmers. There are plently of forums that will help you learn. I learned alot since I've been here, and half the forums that are here now, where never there back then. vB.org has been open for 5 years now, about time we have our little corner! :)

And when I was a lad we didn't even have shoes we had to wrap the skins of potatoes on our feet.... ;)

The fact that you may not have had a certain facility or resource available when you were learning should not be a reason to deny others access to a resource.

My point is that one of the best ways of learning is to watch others "do" and to learn how experienced people actually tackle a problem and it's a shame that some of that is now not being made available to the "non-coders".