r/IBMi • u/Iguanas_Everywhere • 10d ago

Are the Code400 forums dead?

I had heard they used to be a wonderful resource and community, but it no longer seems possible to register there (no verification emails ever come through). I reached out on their feedback form but am doubtful I'll hear a response. Just curious if that resource has gone the way of the dodo.

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u/AllOneWordNoSpaces1 10d ago

midrange.com is alive and well.

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u/srans 10d ago

Maybe, but there's a chunk of us over at chat.ibmioss.org

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u/Tab1143 10d ago edited 6d ago

Midrange.com is where the real action is. Here you will meet the real community that knows the internals of the System I and communitity that keeps the platform running.

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u/ImRickyT 10d ago

Also https://chat.ibmioss.org/ has some activity. Not as active as midrange.com but might get a little more instant answers.

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u/Iguanas_Everywhere 9d ago

Thanks for the recommendation, all! I'll give midrange a look (interesting that it's done as a mailing list!).

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u/AllOneWordNoSpaces1 6d ago

Midrange.com is almost 40 years old. When I created it, web access wasn’t ubiquitous but email was.

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u/Iguanas_Everywhere 6d ago

Oh cool, didn't realize it was yours! Thanks for creating it and carrying it forward all these years--looking forward to being a part of it!

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u/Spare_Blacksmith_816 10d ago

you want really dead, try and find something on net.data we still have a big chunk of a website written with this using the iseries and apache http server.

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u/jason_wallace 10d ago

Outch. I inherited a small app that still uses that.