Comments on: As A Movement, ALT.NET Has Been Dead For A While http://davybrion.com/blog/2010/01/as-a-movement-alt-net-has-been-dead-for-a-while/ Trying to walk that thin line between intelligence and ignorance Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Brandsma http://davybrion.com/blog/2010/01/as-a-movement-alt-net-has-been-dead-for-a-while/comment-page-1/#comment-26021 Chris Brandsma Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:20:51 +0000 http://davybrion.com/blog/2010/01/as-a-movement-alt-net-has-been-dead-for-a-while/#comment-26021 I'll take a shot here: Alt.net succeeded...just not in the way we thought it would. I have some reasons for that. 1. The mailing list was the main point of contact for Alt.Net. The mailing list was destined to fail, because by the time you reach a mass audience it is impossible to get a mailing list to scale for the participant. Inevitably the people you want there will drop off because the chatter becomes too much. Alt.Net had to continue to move beyond the mailing list. 2. An area of growth has been Twitter, blogs and magazines. MSDN magazine has started to include more Alt.Net voices in the past year. It is easy to get good lists of Alt.Net Blogger and Twitter users. The important part is that we all stay connected with each other. 3. The name Alt.Net has become less important because the ideas we were proposing are more main stream now. Alt.Net has successfully promoted the ideas that NHibernate, IoC, SOLID, etc are good things. This to the point that even people who disagree still know about them. I’ll take a shot here: Alt.net succeeded…just not in the way we thought it would. I have some reasons for that.

1. The mailing list was the main point of contact for Alt.Net. The mailing list was destined to fail, because by the time you reach a mass audience it is impossible to get a mailing list to scale for the participant. Inevitably the people you want there will drop off because the chatter becomes too much. Alt.Net had to continue to move beyond the mailing list.

2. An area of growth has been Twitter, blogs and magazines. MSDN magazine has started to include more Alt.Net voices in the past year. It is easy to get good lists of Alt.Net Blogger and Twitter users. The important part is that we all stay connected with each other.

3. The name Alt.Net has become less important because the ideas we were proposing are more main stream now. Alt.Net has successfully promoted the ideas that NHibernate, IoC, SOLID, etc are good things. This to the point that even people who disagree still know about them.

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