Talk Web

[iamtheblues]

Each morning, with coffee and Weetabix by the computer, I click on the "What's New?" button at the top of the TG forum and read the new entries as an accompaniment to breakfast. I open each new thread that interests me in a background browser tab, then mark the forums read.
This morning I had nothing to read with my breakfast and had to visit XaraUsers instead. Below is a screenshot of the reason I had nothing to read. These are just the first fifteen of the twenty listings, the queue of web-related posts stretched much further down the hall. Even the couple that were marked "Dear Xara" and "Graphics & Animation" were web-related.
So here, encapsulated within the screenshot, are 15 reasons why I don't participate in the TG forums anything like as much as I used to; TG has been swamped by the web. Graphics are very much relegated to an afterthought by the popularity of web design.
TG might just as well have a new competition for a new "Talk Web" logo. Still, I suppose this just mirrors the direction that Magix/Xara is moving in. It's not the fault of TG, but it is sad to see the way the character of place has changed beyond all recognition.
Saludos,
Bob.