Re: Consideration of the Monk Trademark

The Everything Development Company did set up a site called javajunkies.org, using the same Everything software that the Monastery uses. However, it seems that there was little take-up (correct me if I'm wrong), and the people subscribing were Perl monks, or found out about the site through Perlmonks.

At the time of writing this, javajunkies seems to be off the air.

It seems that the Perl community had much in the way of untapped momentum when this site first opened - people could easily see the need for it. There was also the novelty factor: nobody had run a technical Q&A discussion forum with voting before (slashdot is journalistic, and its primary function is not Q&A).

I would welcome anybody setting up a monastery based on some technical field I had an interest in, but it is not that easy to be successful.

Update: It seems that my problems getting to Java junkies were with my ISP. I have successfully been able to connect since.

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Re: Re: Consideration of the Monk Trademark
by talexb (Chancellor) on Oct 11, 2002 at 13:49 UTC

Er, no, Java Junkies is alive and well at 0944EDT .. I signed up for a userID there some time ago (same nickname).

Of course, it's a community that's nowhere near as much fun as this one .. it hasn't reached the 'bare minimum' membership whre there are always a dozen or so people on.

And the single biggest thing that it's lacking functionally is a search field. Right irritating. Finally, the script is written in Perl, so JavaJunkies appeals more to Perl programmers who also know Java. And I guess that intersection set is small.

--t. alex

but my friends call me T.

Update:Sorry, I guess I mean to say that the site is written in Perl.

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