Who owns/manages ClarionHub and Skype groups?

[Johan_van_Zyl]

Is this an independent Clarion resource?
What about Skype:
Clarion Live Chat and CW-Talk?

[brahn]

Who owns/manages ClarionHub

Hi @Johan_van_Zyl, that would be me!!

Is this an independent Clarion resource?

I assume you mean independent of SoftVelocity?
Yes, absolutely.
We do have @bob.ricketts here but he has not (yet!) had much opportunity to be active. Of course I like to mention him directly whenever I get the opportunity

For more details I point you to some things I prepared earlier.

This topic is the general “welcome” information

Welcome to the ClarionHub!

Welcome to ClarionHub, the unofficial discussion site for the Clarion developer community! Here you will find a range of topics and posts mostly related, but not limited to, discussion for and about the Clarion Development Environment (IDE) by SoftVelocity and the Clarion Programming Language. For more info, head over to our own FAQ category which includes such gems as: What is Clarion? I have never heard of Clarion, is it new? What is this site about? Who runs this site? First launched in A…

In there is a link to the more specific “Who runs this site?”.

For convenience, a direct link:

Who runs this site?

ClarionHub is run by me, @brahn from Fushnisoft . Hi there! I was following the development of Discourse for some time until it reached a level of maturity that looked like I could handle the admin. At that point I registered the ClarionHub.com domain, redirected my old ClarionWiki domain jumped in and became a host! Currently I run three discourse websites from the one server using the built in “multisite” discourse feature. The site is hosted on a basic Ubuntu droplet at Digit…

When we hit 300 members (now more than 450!) I posted some, I think, interesting details and stats about the site:

Almost 300 users... some site stats for the last month! Edit: We made it to 300, woot!

Since I posted about the Clarionhub on comp.lang.clarion last month we have grown from 250 users to the current 291. Awesome stuff and welcome all you new folks! Since this is the meta category I am not going to talk about Clarion but rather, I thought I would share some stats about the site for your entertainment. Personally I find this stuff really interesting, hopefully you will enjoy it too Cloudflare A few months back I enabled Cloudflare to act as a CDN in front of the Dig…

Another great topic is the “This site is awesome, how can I help?!” one:

This site is awesome, how can I help?!

Option 1: Easy… participate! The more you are involved in the site, the better it becomes. My primary goal for this site is to make it awesome, so more better equals more awesome. Option 2: Spread the word Tell your friends and colleagues! The more awesome Clarion Folks here the better. Any age, any ability, any language, as long as you are interested then signup and join in! For existing members you can also send invites directly to people from your own use…

And the all important “What is the future of this site, will my data (topics/posts) disappear?” question:

What is the future of this site, will my data (topics/posts) disappear?

This is something I have been asked a few times and it is an important concern. By posting here you are contributing to a website that is hosted by someone else. What happens to that data, is it safe and how do you know it will be there tomorrow?! To start with, let me assure you that I have no intentions of closing the site down. Costs are currently minimal and admin overhead is similarly low effort and shared with my other interests and self education. Longer term there may be a time when run…

I feel like there are others, once you get through the above please hit me up with more questions. I love answering them!!

What about Skype:
Clarion Live Chat and CW-Talk?

For these, I suggest you ask on Skype or I can mention @MarkGoldberg, @Mark_Sarson, @Bruce, @John_Hickey, @ArnoldYoung who might be available at some point to respond here directly.

Good to have you here @Johan_van_Zyl and thanks for the questions!

[Johan_van_Zyl]

Thank you for that most comprehensive answer! GOOD NEWS!
I was banned from SoftVelocity Newsgroups after I created my FaceBook Clarion Developers/Programmers page because I used Clarion and SoftVelocity graphic files.

[brahn]

No problem!

On this site direct moderation by admins is of course possible as well as the ability for general users to “flag” a post for attention by admin/moderators. The idea is that the community itself can contribute to what is ok and what is not.

The FAQ has more specifics but really, the idea is to simply play nice