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I found CodeProject.com after evaluating several other similar sites. You guys are a good crowd.
As for these other sites, what's out there? I suppose we have Reddit, StackOverflow, GitHub, and several others, but they don't compare. Hypothetically, if CP never came to be, where would you be?
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I went to GitHub first because I had a lot of code to publish. But it wasn't until I wrote articles here that my software started being viewed and downloaded, either here or on GitHub, far more often. Having a place to publish articles also encouraged me to fill in a lot of documentation gaps that needed filling in. Reddit, and especially StackOverflow, are good for getting answers to very focused technical questions, but they don't come close to the breadth of coverage that you sometimes find in articles here, and their culture is sometimes rather snotty.
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I'd probably be in a ditch somewhere getting drunk and talking to dogs while trying to steal the town folk's newspapers for shelter... oh wait, I'm doing that now. Clickety 
Jeremy Falcon
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I've been with CP for over 20 years, was "Old Timer" in my first iteration.
Before that I had been away from programming for many years and I used CP to catch up. I tried but I had lost too much and couldn't compete with the younguns coming out of school. But I still enjoy programming and probably die at the keyboard. 
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.4.0 (Many new features) JaxCoder.com
Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Mike Hankey wrote: and probably die at the keyboard
Don't forget to clear your browser history before you croak.
Jeremy Falcon
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Mike Hankey wrote: I've been with CP for over 20 years
Same...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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None of the current places, so probably nowhere.
It was a recent college graduate I was working with twenty years ago who introduced me to CP at that time.
Back in the early 90s I was a member of a computer group which had a BBS...
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20+ years ago I joined CP. I don't recall my reasoning, but since I retired 5 years ago, I have been visiting CP more often. Nothing compares in depth and breadth. Excellent site for my needs. Casual and professional mixed just right.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Probably nowhere. A colleague of mine from work back in the early 2000s told me about the site when I was looking for a C++ ADO DB library. I searched CP and found an article that was nearly exactly what I was looking for. I've been a member ever since.
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Was learning C# in 2004, and was looking out for help on the Internet. Found CP and it had answers to our questions, and joined.
On a side note, am getting a hunch that some big player (MS, Google, ... ?) will be the new owner/custodian of CP, and that it will continue as earlier, or with some modifications. (Probably MS, because this is a predominantly C# site).
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Amarnath S wrote: getting a hunch
A hunch implies that you have no hard evidence. Is that the case?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Just a guess. Looking at the size of this community and the size of the CodeProject data centre, of which there was a photo shared sometime back on this site itself. Not sure whether a small company can buy and maintain such a data centre.
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I've been a member for 22 years. First found CP while searching for something C or C++ related, while living in North Guilford CT, using a 64KB IDSN connection. Gads that was slow.
Where would I have gone? For posting articles, nowhere at the time. Eventually I would have started posting articles on a blog or a website, both of which I eventually created, but I've pretty much posted all my articles here.
As to finding a community like CP? I think what CP has provided over the years is irreplaceable. There is nothing that compares, at least that I've found.
Same with finding valuable resources. My code over the years is liberally sprinkled with comments like "see Code Project article here:"
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Wordle 1,211 2/6*
🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I've read a lot of interesting articles and discussion over the years and if CP dies where else am I going to post my Wordle result? 
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All I'm gonna say is this, when comparing requests for a web server in 3 languages...
- Zig 118K requests per second
- Rust 113K requests per second
- Go 18K requests per second
(Just for reference even JavaScript can do 15k per second... cough cough Go)
Clickety (SFW)
La la la 
Jeremy Falcon
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I'll add to that,
Accept - Beat the Bastards - YouTube[^]
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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On the chance that CP goes the way of the Dodo[^] in the coming days or weeks there is a fairly good chance that it will happen without warning. Poof! Spooky dust!
When / if this happens many of us will also simply "disappear". For me this is it. There is no "other" site where I participate or even communicate. If CP goes away so does FGS1963.
To all of you - it's been a pleasure. You're mostly a smart group. Your humour is right up my alley. I've learned a ton about tech, about different cultures and hell - about life. I'm sticking around to the bitter end but if that end happens abruptly - please accept my great thanks for having "known" you.
FYI - FGS1963 is actually a 2nd login made ~3 years ago when I decided to return after an extended absence. I killed my original login after ~18 years and 20k+ messages. I was much chattier back then. My original login is actually still quoted in one signature that I know of. Well, actually my late uncle is quoted by reference to me - but I'll take it. I was actually here back in the days of Nish, Paul Watson, Shog9, David Wulff, etc...
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First place I go in the morning to to find out what's really going on, like a robot vacuum revolt.
There's always somthing to forward to my techie wife.
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CP's demise will be so sad! I agree with you about a monthly / annual membership fee. 
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Hopefully that doesn't happen, but it is not looking good right now. It is a site I have learned much from, and a mostly respectful site which is very refreshing.
P.S. Mike, your uncle had a great sense humor. (guessing, hope I'm right)
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: P.S. Mike, your uncle had a great sense humor. (guessing, hope I'm right)
He passed a few years ago at the ripe old age of 89. He did it right. Calmly while sleeping - not screaming bloody murder like the other people in the car he was driving. 
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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