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"The Joel on Software discussion group, in long decline, will close. The Business of Software group will remain open."
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/14.html

Hopefully BOS has enough critical mass to survive without traffic via Joel's blog.

I think we have an active community here, which sort of exists parallel-to-but-not-really-dependent-on Joel's blogging community.  We should be more or less fine.

Thanks to Joel for keeping BOS opened.  It's an invaluable forum for exchanging of ideas for entrepreneurs.  The people here are of high caliber and very seasoned.

I was saddened by the announcement that the JoS forum will be closed, although heartened by the news that the BoS forum will remain.

I've been reading, learning and posting here since 2001, so I guess that makes me an old timer ;-)

Anyway, thanks to Joel and all the posters for the excellent insights over the years.

Keep BOS going!!! Its a classic.

I will now redirect my attention from HN to BOS.

>>"I’m not going to write Ten Ways to Get VCs to Salivate, I’m not going to write Why You Have To Buy a $10,000 Italian Espresso Machine for your Programmers, and I’m not going to write Python is For Aspergers Geeks or Ruby is for Tear-streaked Emo Teenagers. After a decade of this, the whole genre of Hacker News fodder is just too boring to me personally. "


Ive always felt the BoS forum is much more practical, not  relying on rehashing the same material over and over again. Im glad it will still be around.

Alot of the posts from JoS will just move over here. So there should be enough of a community for a while.

Are there any other good BoS like communities I should look into?

http://www.asp-shareware.org

http://answers.onstartups.com

Jeez. Didn't see that coming.

I've been absent for quite a while, and just starting to pop back in as time allows.

I'm certainly glad that BoS won't be closing, because I count it as one of my top resources to go to.

There is more than enough information in here for anyone with the patience to read a bit to get their own software company started. The depth of experience in BoS really makes it a must read for anyone interested in doing software as more than a 9to5.

As already said above, "not a rehash", which is refreshing. Most "articles" I read are total drivel of rehashed non-sense from a few years ago that was already stale. (I'll puke if I read another SEO article as I've not read anything original in a very long time.)

+1 for the ASP -- Well worth the price of admission.

It was good to hear that Joel's not turning out the lights on BOS - This was the very first forum I found five years ago where I could actually get a grip on all those non-coding tasks I needed to learn how to do to sell software.

People always reference that answers.onstartups.com, maybe i'm old but that just doesn't seem like a conversation or comparison to here, more like a place to ask questions and get answers.

Been a life-saver for me too at times...




AC

Incredibly helpful forum, please don't close it. Otherwise we need to setup something new.

Minor suggestion:  The "Discuss" link from the top nav bar here should probably be redirected to BOS now.

BoS is so informative

As I see it Andy and Patrick are the forum and I will follow them anywhere. The spartan interface and the lack of features are really working against this community.

Know whatahmean, know whatahmean, nudge nudge, know whatahmean, say no more?

This forum inspired me, without it I'd still be an employee..