As I sit here looking at my little $10/month hosting account, I'm seeing that ArcDeveloper.net is taking up a lot of space, and getting relatively little traffic. In addition, I believe that the vast majority of the "1279" the registered users are actually spam accounts which never activated because their email addresses were bogus. And you can bet I'm enthusiastic to dig in there and clear them all out. 

On the bright side, Google Analytics shows a consistent 100 or so visits a day, with 70% of the traffic coming from Search Engines - at least it shows that people are searching for what the few participants are discussing.

And I know from talking to some of you that it has been a good resource from time to time. But, as ESRI is now fully supporting .NET 2.0 (a primary reason for starting this up), and their forums are threatening to add RSS feeds any day now, perhaps this site's time has come and gone.

The question for me (and I guess for you) is - should I keep it going? I've got a lot of other stuff on the go, and so promoting/maintaining the site is just not happening. The wider ESRI Developer crowd has not jumped in either - I'm guessing it has too much overlap with the main support forums.

If people think it's still useful, please let me know in the comments, or via the Contact link at the top of this page. Is there anything else you'd like to see on the site? Different forums? Should it be running on different software (Community Server does many things "ok", but nothing really well in my opinion - and it's a pain to administer).

What would drag me in is one or two simple forums:

1) Agile Development and ArcGIS - which would cover things like Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Automated builds, WiX, Sandcastle, and all the other good "goo" that goes around a successful development team.

2) Quick Hits - killer questions and  simple solutions. Kinda like a light-weight community blog where you can post questions that just are not going to get any play at the ESRI forums, and where people without blogs can post how-to's.

Another option would be to kill Community Server all together and slap up a semi-secured wiki (i.e. read-only for public, editable for email validated users). Much more free-form, but that also has it's uses.

Anyhow - let me know what you think the future of ArcDeveloper.net should be. If someone else wants to take over the site (and move it to their hosting account) I'd be up for that too.