This short post mentions that community.vscodetips.com went offline on November 1st, 2022.
I'm a big fan of VS Code, hence the community I created, but it was no longer maintainable for me for a couple reasons:
Engagement – Engagement on the site was pretty low. Although we had almost 1300 members on the site, no one was really posting content. Aside from myself, I believe there have been one or maybe two articles published by members since April 2022.
Managing the community – I work full-time as an engineer, so my time is limited. There were only so many hours I could dedicate to building the community. TL;DR, the number of hours was really low.
I want to thank the folks who helped me moderate things. Shoutout to @thomasbnt and @michaeljolley and, I think, another community member. Apologies, but your name has escaped me at the moment.
The cost was not a factor. I paid about 25$ CAD a month for my Digital Ocean droplet (including backup).
Thanks to all that were part of the community. I encourage you to continue to post about VS Code, but instead of on our now defunct community, I encourage you to post on dev.to or wherever brings you joy.
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Top comments (9)
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I didn't comment or interact too much over there, but did consume the posts - thanks for sharing! Will be watching for more!
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I think it's really neat that you got something like VS Code running to begin with. Congrats on getting 1,300 different people involved! Hopefully DEV will serve as a similar outlet and...
who knows, perhaps there'll be a revival of VS Code with a Forem of it's own someday.
Thanks! 😎 It was a Forem instance. The software worked well, it was just not maintainable for me for the reasons mentioned.
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I enjoyed being a part of it in the early days! Thanks for the effort you put into it.
@andypiper, were you my other moderator or am I dreaming?
Nope, not there, no problem!
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