I discovered Daniweb from a post, which recommended 10 technical communities outside of China. The seventh is Daniweb, and the ninth is dreamincode.
Lihui Zhang 0 Newbie Poster
John_165 commented: I guess is an old article, as dreamincode has already shut down +0
JohnEdward44 0 Newbie Poster
Yes, I’m also active on a few other forums like Stack Overflow, where I dive into programming discussions and help troubleshoot coding problems. I also follow the r/Technology subreddit to stay updated on the latest tech trends. It’s great to engage with different communities and learn from diverse experiences!
cored0mp 54 Junior Poster in Training
Monetizing this board would not be as difficult as perhaps some people here seem to think it would be.
Likewise driving traffic would be borderline trivial. The reason I did not bring this up was that I had assumed that you guys were happy with the status quo?
Rev., is it your wish that there should be more questions here?
Dani, is it your wish to monetize the board?
Reverend Jim 4,968 Hi, I'm Jim, one of DaniWeb's moderators. Moderator Featured Poster
Rev., is it your wish that there should be more questions here?
Definitely. I miss the days when there were more programming questions. These days it is all about SEO, AI, and backlinks. And a lot of the questions are the same old spam bait, as are a lot of the answers. Not to mention the useless definitions and AI generated nonsense.
cored0mp commented: answered below, Bud. +0
Dani 4,351 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
Dani, is it your wish to monetize the board?
DaniWeb has been my livelihood, and quite profitable, from 2002 up through 2019. For many years, we were one of the most popular sites on the web. Unfortunately, I then got very sick and was bedbound for a long time, entirely unable to look at a computer screen. I now have cancer as well as some other serious health issues going on, and regaining my health is my primary focus, so DaniWeb took a backseat.
Monetizing this board would not be as difficult as perhaps some people here seem to think it would be.
Likewise driving traffic would be borderline trivial.
I have a lot of SEO experience, most of which came from growing DaniWeb, at its peak, to over 10 million visitors a month. I have to disagree with you that driving traffic is trivial. However, I'm always open to new ideas and suggestions, especially when it comes to figuring out ways to regain our popularity after being "dormant" for so long.
Dani 4,351 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
These days it is all about SEO, AI, and backlinks.
I just want to add that, given my extensive SEO background, I definitely want DaniWeb to have a place for SEO, SEM, and all that jazz. However, we definitely need to have more coding questions too! Unfortunately, I feel like coding questions really all go to Stack Overflow these days.
cored0mp 54 Junior Poster in Training
@Reverend Jim
Definitely. I miss the days when there were more programming questions. These days it is all about SEO, AI, and backlinks. And a lot of the questions are the same old spam bait, as are a lot of the answers. Not to mention the useless definitions and AI generated nonsense.
OK, so here is what you do. Maybe recruit one other person for this. Every time you check on daniweb, and there aren't enough questions to sate you, pop on over to reddit and find a technical question that speaks to you which no one has answered.
Answer the question on Daniweb, and provide a link to the person (over on Reddit) and say, "Hey but, I'm not sure if this is right but a search engine found this:" and you can link back to Daniweb.
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This will lure in nice/grateful people. The first impression that this website needs to make on new ppl is, "Hello, if you post a tech question here it will probably get answered. Nice people only."
cored0mp 54 Junior Poster in Training
@Dani
I have a lot of SEO experience, most of which came from growing DaniWeb, at its peak, to over 10 million visitors a month. I have to disagree with you that driving traffic is trivial. However, I'm always open to new ideas and suggestions, especially when it comes to figuring out ways to regain our popularity after being "dormant" for so long.
I would not be here, were this not so.
And yet the questions is not one of traffic. Traffic is not fungible on it's face. That's the Facebook way of thinking, and there is some likelihood that I will be doing a writeup about the fact that Facebook was actually one of the POOREST run companies that has managed to survive. In ways that will with the benefits of hindsight seem quite obvious. But traffic is hardly the central question. To get to the central question will require you to face something scary, something that Mr. Zuckerberg hasn't managed to tackle, despite having every conceivable entrepreneurial advantage.
You will need to convince your fans and customers alike to pay a subscription.
Take me for example. I'm simply UNABLE to find technical consulting on the level of quality available here. Imagine if I got hit by a car for example, so what I'm writing doesn't have anything to do with me. But I do work at a startup, and we're applying for funding.
There are others like me. And some of these people just got funded. Were I spending investor money, I would want to put ten of my best coders with corporate accounts on this site. The worth of the help here is invaluable. You just need to get me to pay for it.
The universities are dumping people into tech careers with essentially zero training.
Reddit has a terrific subreddit. I mean I dislike Reddit but the reddit in particular is actually a merry place. It's the 'entrepreneur' subreddit. That place is actually like 20% people who are netting over a million a year in e-commerce. These people struggle with simple tech support. Struggle with things like Wordpress integrations.
The number of people on that subreddit that work in SEO and need expert help is staggering. If they are making high in the five figures (incompetently) delivering SEO services to their clients, and they know that they need help because they are terrible at SEO. Yet their livelihood depends on it.
There is a huge need for this. It's not tough to hire accountants, SEO people or to fill roles like that. But competent tech help? Priceless. There simply isn't another web site like Daniweb. Irreplaceable.
Dani 4,351 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
You will need to convince your fans and customers alike to pay a subscription.
But, of course, we already try to do that.
Take me for example. I'm simply UNABLE to find technical consulting on the level of quality available here.
And, yet, you have chosen not to subscribe to DaniWeb Premium, despite our best attempts at pushing it in your face. When you click your avatar in the top right of any page, there's a link to upgrade your membership in the dropdown, so anytime you want to go to your control panel, or even just to log out, it's there. There's a section in your control panel to upgrade your membership. And, of course, the big one is when you ask a question. We assume people are like you and they benefit the most from DaniWeb when they ask questions that get high quality answers. The Publish tab whenever you contribute a topic/question encourages you to upgrade your membership. There must be something we are not doing well enough that is not convincing you enough to subscribe, despite you saying that you're "simply UNABLE to find technical consulting on the level of quality available here."
The worth of the help here is invaluable. You just need to get me to pay for it.
So, again, the question I need to ask is what is going through your mind that is stopping you from paying for DaniWeb Premium. Why are we doing a bad job at convincing you? What would it take to convince you?
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