Things that don't improve a community and its offering:- Telling the long-timers of that community that they fail. (In case you haven't noticed, purage, those are the guys that can actually answer detailed questions that might come up!)
- Turning a Wiki into a moderated newsgroup. (... )
- Forking the effort. (Troy, do you really think that a forum "just like OSDev just more advanced" will attract enough people to become a community, and actually provide a better signal-to-noise ratio than this merger of the two biggest OS development ressources of their time?)
Sorry, guys. What we see here is the usual "departure of the old ones". They get out of university, or get a life, or both, and their hobby OS projects go dormant. This has happened to many great ones. Pype/Clicker or Candy come to mind. I myself could contribute more if I had the time, both to continue my own OS project and actually hang out here.
But this is the way it goes, and there is only one solution: You yourself must strive to become a "great old one". Yes, that means that there is no longer someone there to lean on, no higher authority, because it is
you they come to for answers.
It also means that you can no longer afford to sling best guesses from the hip, but have to do research and be precise. It also means that, if you want something to be done in the Wiki, you have to do it yourself - and if you get it wrong, you'll make a mess of things.
Responsibility.
It's called "growing up". It's a painful process, and it's quite the same as becoming a parent: Those who come after you will cry and ***** and sulk and listen to your words much less that you would like them to, and probably hate you most of the time for being so know-it-all. But if
you don't give them the good advice and guidance to get started, they won't have a happy time afterwards, so you give it the best you can.
...
Erm.
OK, so I got a bit carried away on the rant. But I think you get the idea.
It's not about how a Wiki works or where this forum is located. It's all about
you.