Forum not dead, but...

[Jerry62712]

There have been 24 threads active this month. 13 of them have no answers. Of those with replies, 2 were self-answered.

That means of 24 threads, 15 didn't get any help at all and only 9 received a reply. Of those 9, 5 received a single reply from someone else. Only 4 threads had more than one reply out of 24.

No, the forum is not dead, but it is on life support.

Adobe doesn't provide much support relying on forums like this one. As this one (and others like it) have little support and I think Adobe is making a mistake. They are saving money in the short term, but developers are throwing up their hands and abandoning Flex due to lack of help. In the long term they will not make money.

[marlopax]

Jerry,

Helping on Project Base Application is difficult because it is related to many issues, such as Classes, SDK, Framework, Components, Custom Assets and many other things which depend on individual style of Programming. MXML has good recourses of helps but no one cannot write help with every possible combinations. Its like html or xml, there is no rule how you decorate your pages and what best tag structure will work on every browser.

On forums, if someone asks why his project is not going to work by showing a portion of code which doesn’t make sense to others, the thread will die. Similarly, if someone post their entire project and asks how this going to work, will result the same, because no one has such time to inspect it and give solution.

This is not same in Flash as Flex, because in Flash, people comes asking helps, are usually designers or beginners, or they come to ask for methods or logic which is very easy to answer. Very small amount of developers asks help for complex application and for those types of help they get samples and examples from net.

MXML or Pure AS3 on Flex/FlashBuilder is not built for designers. If a designer wants to adopt it, he has to make himself strong enough on Programming. As everything in Flex is Code Base. This is same in Java too. Designers get pain to understand how all the things works.

Staying with such programming will teach amazing things, other than that you will get nothing.



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[Jerry62712]

I've worked on a help desk and am well aware of how questions can be. The point, however, is 15 out of 24 questions receive no help of any kind. Perhaps no one here is able to answer many questions (I'm certainly not).

Then if Adobe wants to keep selling the product then they will have to take up the slack. Not many want to buy a product that has no support. Adobe touted how "user helping user" was the answer to their lack of providing much support. It would appear that isn't working very well.

I'd hate to see Flex go the way of Paradox down the hole of abandoning developers.