@TrevorClarke That's too bad, we were lucky to have you here.

Hopefully we'll see you back here every now and again in the future.

@TrevorClarke You'll be missed ... does seem to have gone very quiet the last few days

@kdopen It seems the regulars have been running out of steam a bit lately, I did see a few questions by new users though, which is an encouraging trend.

@overactor The chat room has been virtually empty for the last 3 or 4 days. I assumed everyone was on vacation or something

At this point, I think the regulars are out of seed questions. We need some real ones

Yeah, as for the chatrooms, a combination of factors I'd say

weekend

regulars running out of steam

vacations

I'm waiting for the next podcast and hoping we get a mention there

That could bring in some users

That, and Google sending people our way

we've turned up a few times when I tried to research some of the questions :)

@kdopen That's cool.

yup

maybe if other people started asking qustions

I may not leave

and most likely not for good if I do

but we have a community (us 6 or so ) but not a userbase

which is what we need

@TrevorClarke we'll have to see how things evolve, you're right that the userbase is not big enough at the moment.

@TrevorClarke: I hope you'll be reconsider and be back soon

Look, I think we're all out of steam. I'm in Norway, but I've still been on the site a lot, but at different times.

I'm sorry to hear you leave, you're one of the best people that this site had.

Quite frankly, I feel like there have only been a few people really running this site from the beginning: you, @ArtOfCode @Mnementh @overactor @kdopen @Martijn @Gilles and myself, and in the public beta: @FreeRadical. We've all been on meta, raised opinions and really all helped the site in different ways.

This beta is probably on the top of betas with tons of activity, but I feel like we've been lagged in a bunch of issues: neutrality, leadership (moderators), and a few other things.

Once again: this is a perfectly normal activity pattern

In the first few weeks, a bunch of people ask a lot of questions, with variable quality

then people run out of artificial questions, so there's less traffic

and it takes months or years to grow a community

be patient already

Quick question: is there automatic network ads for bounties?

@Zizouz212 what do you mean? Bounties get a tab on the home page

For example, is there automatic ads like hnqs for bounties?

I've seen stuff like there are 6 bounties on this site in community ads posts before

@Zizouz212 that's a community ad serving a PNG that's generated dynamically by someone's server

Alright, so nothing like that exists then right?

Quick poking-in of my nose. All OK? I see we lost Trevor, which is a shame.

Hey

@ArtOfCode what's up?