Some Topic actually have last post in early 2004!!!

[newbie777]

Hi all,

i've just joined the forum, and i cant help noticing that some of the topics havent had a new post since early last year!!!

hmm.... is there another forum that everyone is migrating to?

regards,
newbie777

[randychase]

There was never that much activity in certain forums, and I doubt there ever will be. So it is not an issue of users migrating. The Cadence userbase was never here. Nor Pantheon. Nor Orcad. Etc.

Each type of software or CAD system has email lists or forums in place already. This one was started by me and attracted mainly a Mentor PADS userbase. You get occasionally people stumbling by from Orcad or Allegro or whatever... but never a crowd. It is funny, but some of those systems never seemed to have much of a forum based community anywhere. Not sure why.

Even PCBlibraries, in which there is development on the library stuff, is still mainly PADS oriented, and days will go by without any posts. Someone started PADMASTERS, but it hardly gets any posts for weeks and weeks.

I run other forums (music, car, etc), and there are some you can't read the posts fast enough, with hundreds of posts per day or hour. The purpose of PCBstandards fits in fine with less posting. It is a place to find answers, and data or answers from 2004 work just as well.

[Skip Yutkus]

By far the most active EDA forum is the Polish based www.edaboard.com - it's in english, but keep in mind a lot of the forum users are foreign college/university students - that board was started by a 17 year old about 6 years ago and now has over 41K membership, my number is around 300 - check it out not just EDA but physics and IC design and lottsa stuff.

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[newbie777]

yes edaboard.com with its points system and zero tolerance for frivorous posts is actually very active... maybe its the free technical ebooks :)