Tamas Henning

It has been ages since I last wrote something on my blog. Since my last post I have been to Tallinn twice again… work related of course and now I’m suffering with my midterms. The main problem is that I’m not on vacation and I work and study at the same time. It was my choice not to go on vacation but I don’t regret it… Maybe I will after the midterms???

Anyways, yesterday I flipped the switch on a new forum release at Skype Don’t yell at me that I forgot to blog about the main release but I was too busy getting things done. This release was just a hotfix that fixed some issues and brought some new features which people were asking for. (So we do listen…) But unfortunately some issues that were reported were in fact actual features. So the saying: “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature” popped into my head from my Skype t-shirt I got in Prague during the closed beta days. I agree that the forum still needs work, but nothing is perfect right? I’ve been working on this project since early August, 2007 so it has taken quiet some time to get to this stage. Am I happy with my work? Yes I am. After all the bumps we had in the road we finally managed to get everything in place at least in an early format. But what is still yet to come will truly turn the Skype forums into Skype Community.

I’ve read plenty of posts on the internet saying that the forum usage has gone down. Well from what I’ve seen as a moderator on the forum this isn’t true. Of course there has been a slight drop at the beginning but come on when you release something new this is to be expected. And from the numbers what I can see the normal usage trend remains. (Please note that this is not an official statistic just a personal opinion).

Anyways I have to end this post since I have a lot more studying to do

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