Well, I'm not in a position to support anybody right now, and she'd doubtless want somebody younger, but she's hot!

Because makin' your way in the world today takes everything you've got.

This community is like my circle of friends.
And this forum is free from all the fluff you get at other places.

It's niche and comfortable. Also it's possible to talk about non Allegro projects here and get good help without having subforums for every conceivable platform and thousands of members spamming all over.

I'm not very active now. But even though I have a fulltime jorb and rarely use Allegro I still log in daily and from time to time I post a comment on some interesting thread.

I think this place has everything that would interest me but in moderation so I never feel overwhelmed.

Someone's mentioned an iOS port of Allegro. And is there an Android port, too? How about a Windows Phone port? Anyway, it thrills me to sometime write games for these fancy new toys. And even if I haven't yet got into A5, and don't even own an iOS/Android toy, someday I will. And then I guess it's good to know people here.

And don't say there are better tools and libraries. I know Allegro is still more fun.

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One more thing. People really pay attention to proper spelling here. Well, I did already mention intelligent people.

Is that offer open to anyone

I tried joining other forum sites (like gamedev.net) but I've been spoiled by how nice a forum can be and I don't have the time to invest in the horrible interfaces.

Also the crowd is quite smart (albeit slightly depressing and many are socially challenged). Helping peoples' problems speaks to my vanity. <code> tags work well and are easy to use. I learned to program here so there's some nostalgia. Coming to Allegro.cc gives me a refresher of why I like programming so much in the first place.

I do wish people here were more successful. There's a lot of overbearingly intelligent minds that seem to struggle with career success. Maybe that's why everyone loved Minecraft so much.

I rarely post here anymore but I still check the forum daily just to see what others are doing. This used to be my sole outlet for social interaction so it's hard to just let go and never visit again. I truly miss the old days when there were new threads everyday and people were posting on a consistent basis.

During a discussion on IRC it just kind of came to me that I am here for two reasons:

• Do my best to help others.

• Learn new things, especially when I am wrong about something.

I am disappointed to see some of the regulars when I joined that I respect very much absent or less active, but all in all many of them are still around, and I think that it's still a uniquely intelligent community that is good at discovering and spreading knowledge. There is also some nostalgia from my college days when I first joined. The Allegro community became sort of a crutch when my personal life was unraveling, and I hope it continues to be.

I'm not really a regular user of any other forum. I can't stand any other forum software longer than it takes to register or post a reply or new thread, and even if the software were tolerable I generally can't tolerate the community. Allegro has a nice mix of both: great software and many good and intelligent people.

I am disappointed that Allegro seems less busy than it used to be, but then I'm also more busy with other things than I used to be so it's not entirely one-sided.

The Allegro community has been the first tab of my Web browser for something like 5 or 6 years now, and has been the first tab of my IRC client since I became a regular there (probably 2 or 3 years; pretty much ever since I adopted a VPS that gave me "always on" capabilities). I intend to keep it that way for the foreseeable future.

Well, I've been on this forum since around 2004 (on a different account, then I switched to this one), so I suppose it's mostly nostalgia mixed up with just being used to it.

I enjoy the occasional thread and like to post here and there, but I try to stay away from programming questions, seeing as I moved on from C++ long ago (currently using Unity3D, which seems really decent). It's mostly off-topic for me these days.

Yeah... I think a.cc got a lot slower after the girls left. We need a Nichole 2.0 :-)

I keep coming back because I have nowhere else to go. I'm used to everyone here, which is why I don't feel like I need to prove anything anymore. Sites I do frequent I feel like I have to prove I know programming and that just isn't the case here.

1) Needs no remarks really.
2) It's his job.
4) Are you on drugs?
7) Yeah that is fun at times
8) Who

The forum interface is very clean and bs-free. People here are either refreshingly intelligent or humorously stupid. The library had almost no comments, but it was written so cleanly that I actually kinda followed the code.

This and xkcd are the only sites I visit more than once a week.

ML's excessively dry humor.

The wide selection of smileys.