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I always go to the forums via the homepage of Micromart, and I've often wondered if the website is sort of dead or at least sleeping with someone occasionaly giving it a shove to wake it.
The featured article is always very old and the news has been the same since, well I can't remember when it last looked different, but it certainly isn't "The very latest happinings in the IT world brought direct to your desktop, courtsey of Micro Mart's regularly updated news reports" as stated when clicked upon.
Today when I first logged on, the front page's featured article was about the Governments Home Computer Initiative, which was killed off by the government two years ago.
I refreshed the page and came across the latest review for Iolo's System Mechanic 6, which is now actually at version 7.
A few more refreshes just recycles old articles and there is nothing new.
I know the answer will be down to the few numbers of people that actually put Micromart together, and they do a great job with the magazine.
However isn't time that someone, Simon maybe, suggested to Dennis publishing that some extra resources were found to update the magazines own website and keep it updated, like most magazines do?
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Todays "feature" (at the moment) is about running a computer club, which got me thinking, when did the pages promoting clus and computer fairs disappear?
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I was just at the website, looking for Motherboard and CPU reviews (looking to upgrade after making a killing on eBay!  ) Everything is very disorganised, with mobo reviews in both Hardware and Component sections. Nothing is date-stamped, so you don't know how old articles are - except Simon's review of AMD socket 754 notherboards, which must be ancient. Maybe instead of posting random reviews and articles from past issues, the website should concentrate on aggregating information (such as Jason's excellent CPU charts) for common hardware and software. Some sort of rankings for ATI/AMD and nVidia graphics cards would certainly halp me as I struggle to make sense of the gfx scene . . . The thing is, that the MicroMart website could be an indespensible ready-reference for when you are away from your stack of back-issues. Just a thought.
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Here's a more revolutionary thought. Why not simply make the web-site a repository for past article PDF files. Linux Format (I know, sorry, wash my mouth out with soap) has taken to doing so on its mag DVDs which must be rather expensive and take a lot of effort, but a web-site repository doubling as a final proof and staff reference might start to pay for itself or even seek contributions (preferably OpenSource voluntary-style) for its use ? 
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or make the site open like wikipedia and let the forum members manage it with content etc?
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Now that would be good Alex.
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Hmmm. Lots of things sound good, in theory. But you can't have that level of public 'management' on a commercial site without having to police for abuse round the clock. That would take paying a minimum of three people (in 8 hour shifts per day) through weekends and holidays - just to watch for inappropriate activity, embedded scripts - all sorts of things MM would not want up for even a minute.
Would you have a business, with a website, and then leave it wide open for anyone to add or take from?
Anyone who's ever had a bulletin board or comment box up for a day or two will be very familiar with the kind of spam and sick stuff that gets posted every minute of every day. And no matter how well you defend against it, it still has to be monitored at all times.
Surely the forum is the place for public contributions, no?
The PDF, or other similar packaged format content, has been brought up before, a few times that I've spotted. But why buy the mag when you can wait a week- or even month - and get the PDFs? If/when the main site is back, I'm sure it'll contain useful stuff, but, I suspect, not in handy PDF print-your-own-mag-for-free versions, except, possibly, for very special uses.
I'm just glad the forum has stayed fresh and active, even if the main site hasn't. This could have disappeared when the main site ceased to be updated, but we're all still here. 
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