There is simply nothing remotely as good as the mootools javascript framework out there. And version 1.2 did nothing but make it even more fun to code for. That aside, the mootools team decided to ditch the forums and move over to google groups.

I have been subscribed to the new mailing list since the start and I can see it slowly subsiding in interest and usefulness already: what precious little sense of community building i felt before is now slowly diminishing… A terrible way to alienate a loyal userbase who LOVED the old forums – People (well, I did anyway) used to browse them for the sheer fun, to get or offer help, to showcase work, to find out more about new mootools sites or plugins…

There is now a half-hearted attempt at making an unofficial forum but it is just another wrong decision that takes away even more people from the mootools google group…

Shame, really.

*update* some bloke I had not heard of (does not mean much really, I live in a box) called Tom Occhino of the mootools team posted this thread on the mootools “forum”/mail list. I am sorry to say, Tom: claiming that frameworks like jQuery don’t have forums and their users don’t bitch about it are unsubstantiated. For starters, they never had a forum to begin with so they wouldn’t feel as if something precious has been taken away from them. I believe a number of people will have chosen mootools due to the community that it had. Not the best commercial / career decision, all you have to do is look at any job site / agency: jQuery is sought after far more often than mootools (wrong as that might be). Even recruiters have heard of jQuery despite not being able to tell you what a framework is… So why disband the community and try to be another jQuery? This seat is already taken…