OP 28 October, 2024 - 02:41 AM
This year has been a sad October. Flibusta is dying, Linus / Linux is giving unpleasant surprises, Internet Archive has been hacked, and now CodeProject. Here is a message from the CodeProject administration in mid-October:
CodeProject.com is Changing
To our many friends, site members, and customers:
The technology crisis has hit our customers hard, and therefore CodeProject hard.
After nearly two years of significant financial losses, we have been forced to close the business behind CodeProject.com, CodeProject Solutions Inc.
We have worked incredibly hard to avoid this, and despite our best efforts and massive financial investments to overcome the crisis, we have not been able to avoid it.
The site will be moving to read-only mode in the near future. We hope that this change will allow another party to maintain the site as an archive of great code, articles, and technical advice. We are working hard to make this happen, and while there are no guarantees, so far it looks promising. However, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever, publishing of new material will be disabled for articles, forums, QuickAnswers, and other sections of the site.
We are very proud to have been a part of the software development industry for the last 25 years, and to have helped many developers learn new technologies and skills, supported our customers in introducing new products and services, and, in some small way, helped shape the future of software development.
Thank you for being a part of this journey with us.
Some people have speculated about what is going on, discussing Chris and David allegedly "squeezing" money through sales and such.
We can tell you with complete honesty that everyone involved with CodeProject has suffered significant financial losses while doing their best to find a solution.
Chris, David, and the CodeProject.com team
Two weeks ago, while browsing websites in the morning, I came across the following banner:
CodeProject is currently being upgraded by our crack team of SysAdmins. These guys are professionals. What could possibly go wrong?
What was that? Hacked? And only a week later I saw a message from the administration. Honestly, for me this news was a bucket of ice water.
CodeProject was something like a universal Swiss knife if you needed to quickly enter a new technology:
Most articles, in addition to detailed explanations of how it works, included source code and sometimes compiled code examples.
Just like on Habr, CodeProject also had corporate blogs where articles on new technologies were posted.
There was a great structure like Habr's hubs, which you could expand and see the best articles on a given topic.
Commenting and evaluating the article was not limited in time (Habr, when will this happen here too?).
There were, of course, some downsides, but where aren’t there any:
Registration required to download source and executable files.
The process of posting articles was strange: the preferred method was to send the article to a moderator, who would post the article and assign tags to it, which did not always match the author's wishes.
Well, what is left for me if I don’t have it...
Habr remains, in general. Availability of a feed with limited, but nevertheless convenient filtering. Adequate moderation (I'm not throwing it in, this is really true). Adequate placement of articles. Yes, you have to fight an unequal battle with the editor, but it's worth it. Many topics, even those that have nothing to do with IT, but keep you up to date with events.
Reddit
In principle, it's not bad, but its greater focus on mobile users leaves its negative mark - you won't find any detailed articles there, only short scraps of knowledge and crowds of trolls in the comments. And finding anything on Reddit is quite problematic.
Medium
I've never written there, but judging by the search results, it could be a good replacement.
Stack Overflow
Answers to specific questions, nothing extra. Not suitable as a training site.
GitHub
Great idea of hosting source code, but still not it. Many interesting projects contain minimal explanations. Such projects would not pass moderation on CodeProject, and authors would be asked to add explanations.
Good night, sweet prince.
source : https://habr.com/ru/articles/853770/
CodeProject.com is Changing
To our many friends, site members, and customers:
The technology crisis has hit our customers hard, and therefore CodeProject hard.
After nearly two years of significant financial losses, we have been forced to close the business behind CodeProject.com, CodeProject Solutions Inc.
We have worked incredibly hard to avoid this, and despite our best efforts and massive financial investments to overcome the crisis, we have not been able to avoid it.
The site will be moving to read-only mode in the near future. We hope that this change will allow another party to maintain the site as an archive of great code, articles, and technical advice. We are working hard to make this happen, and while there are no guarantees, so far it looks promising. However, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever, publishing of new material will be disabled for articles, forums, QuickAnswers, and other sections of the site.
We are very proud to have been a part of the software development industry for the last 25 years, and to have helped many developers learn new technologies and skills, supported our customers in introducing new products and services, and, in some small way, helped shape the future of software development.
Thank you for being a part of this journey with us.
Some people have speculated about what is going on, discussing Chris and David allegedly "squeezing" money through sales and such.
We can tell you with complete honesty that everyone involved with CodeProject has suffered significant financial losses while doing their best to find a solution.
Chris, David, and the CodeProject.com team
Two weeks ago, while browsing websites in the morning, I came across the following banner:
CodeProject is currently being upgraded by our crack team of SysAdmins. These guys are professionals. What could possibly go wrong?
What was that? Hacked? And only a week later I saw a message from the administration. Honestly, for me this news was a bucket of ice water.
CodeProject was something like a universal Swiss knife if you needed to quickly enter a new technology:
Most articles, in addition to detailed explanations of how it works, included source code and sometimes compiled code examples.
Just like on Habr, CodeProject also had corporate blogs where articles on new technologies were posted.
There was a great structure like Habr's hubs, which you could expand and see the best articles on a given topic.
Commenting and evaluating the article was not limited in time (Habr, when will this happen here too?).
There were, of course, some downsides, but where aren’t there any:
Registration required to download source and executable files.
The process of posting articles was strange: the preferred method was to send the article to a moderator, who would post the article and assign tags to it, which did not always match the author's wishes.
Well, what is left for me if I don’t have it...
Habr remains, in general. Availability of a feed with limited, but nevertheless convenient filtering. Adequate moderation (I'm not throwing it in, this is really true). Adequate placement of articles. Yes, you have to fight an unequal battle with the editor, but it's worth it. Many topics, even those that have nothing to do with IT, but keep you up to date with events.
In principle, it's not bad, but its greater focus on mobile users leaves its negative mark - you won't find any detailed articles there, only short scraps of knowledge and crowds of trolls in the comments. And finding anything on Reddit is quite problematic.
Medium
I've never written there, but judging by the search results, it could be a good replacement.
Stack Overflow
Answers to specific questions, nothing extra. Not suitable as a training site.
GitHub
Great idea of hosting source code, but still not it. Many interesting projects contain minimal explanations. Such projects would not pass moderation on CodeProject, and authors would be asked to add explanations.
Good night, sweet prince.
source : https://habr.com/ru/articles/853770/