Chris

NTL shot themselves in the foot by announcing Community. Would this site exist today if they had not threatened to nobble .com? I heard that this site would have started up eventually anyway, but without the threat of the axe over .com, would this site have attracted nearly as many members, and so quickly? Now there is a vibrant ntl-related forum out there that they cannot control, and to make it worse they have damaged .com without building themselves anything to replace it. There is still no forum at Community. The k-base, which should have been a good idea, sits gathering cobwebs like someone got bored with it very quickly. Bungling and incompetence from start to finish.

As for ntl-related help on this forum, .com may have the edge at the moment but that site is, sadly, on a downward spiral and once there is nowhere else to go I think it's inevitable this site will benefit from some of the displacement. After all, .com enjoyed unofficial help from staffers before it became ntl-owned, so no-one can say an independent site can't offer effective help.

I think it is easy for us to lose sight of the fact that this forum is only five months old, precisely because it has had such swift success. Give it time. I think this is the place to be.