After much consideration I've decided to deprecate the forum. It still does get some activity, so for that reason we will keep it for the foreseeable future.. The link will be moved to the bottom of the site to shift focus to our newer status update system. This was a hard decision to make, but in order to progress as an application developer network this is a necessary step.
We aren't a Q&A site. StackOverflow has that covered. So by removing the forum we are stepping further away from a Q&A format. Our goal is to provide developers with a platform to reach out to and communicate with their users.
Glad I could be of help! Lmao.
One thing I do feel obligated to point out. With your automatic status filler, (not sure what to call it, it adds on to the home page status list), makes the forums unreachable. Only after scrolling through 6 months worth of statuses was I finally able to reach it. However, with the purpose of diminishing forum traffic, it may have been intentional.
Yeah. I see what SunnyD was saying. It kept displaying the next set of status updates automatically, preventing me from viewing the footer of the site. It finally stopped after a while and allowed me to click a "Show More" button. If this was unintentional, possibly allow us to click the show more button if we desire to see older updates to prevent automatically displaying the next set. Also, the header part (specifically the grey transparent strip) I think the links should be aligned in the center. However, I see that they are aligned with the "Hawkee" image, which keeps it uniform with the header. It was just a personal observation. ^_^
@BlueThen Well for example I've been using a particular lightbox here on the site for the images and I was trying to contact the developer about a certain issue I was having. I couldn't find him anywhere, so all I could do was post an issue to the project page. If he had a Hawkee profile I could contact him directly here. In this case I'm the user and he's the developer.
I could keep the mIRC sections open since they still get activity, but I'd probably bury the link somewhere in order to reduce activity and steer more users to the status update system.