No more great Question or Discussion ? Where are the real Insiders ?

besides you, the other old insiders do not post or answer big questions here ... or the builds are perfect or they lost interest here in this forum

No one has disappeared. There are not a ton of posts

about 17723. Buildfeed hasn't updated.

I don't tend to post on a thread that already has an

answer or is above my knowledge.

Crazy kats disappeared ... old Insiders no more answer here ...

If you mean the Big Questions like XP vs. Vista (MS has lost its way), or Windows 7 vs. Windows 8 (MS has again lost its way), it's true there's very little of that here. I think it's because Windows 10 has evolved into something most of us can now configure to our liking - and even more so with the RS5 builds.

Hi Andre,

I completely agree with you and as you, I regret it.  Personally, I blame MS for a lot of it. For one, the true nay-sayers have been banned long ago and for another, the Insider community has gotten far too large, making it almost impossible for MS to publish anything but polished builds. Used to be that we were bug hunters and solution finders, now it has deteriorated into a kind of ad-hoc helpdesk. But Insiders are also too blame, far too many have taken this change with hardly a protest and dare not post anything negative for fear of being...oh, I don't know... deemed to be a trol?, banned perhaps? All I seem to read these days is how great MS is. Well, I don't agree, I think MS is doing a lousy job when it comes to keeping us informed on the current state of W10, of what it's plans are regarding it, etc.

The Feedback Hub? What a completely useless piece of …..

Regards,

Stephen 

I can only say: You said Everything! Thanks...

the helpdesk part ... laughs a lot

Perfect... the FeedBack have no feedback... nobody knows if 'They' really read that or if We are silly to post and we hope that someday fix any problem

I agree with Stephen that the FBH isn't always updated

in a timely manner.

As to if they read it, they must if you get a notice that

your FB has been added to a collection.

What gets me is that these Bug Bash quests are geared

to the "average" user.

Hi Andre,

I completely agree with you and as you, I regret it.  Personally, I blame MS for a lot of it. For one, the true nay-sayers have been banned long ago and for another, the Insider community has gotten far too large, making it almost impossible for MS to publish anything but polished builds. Used to be that we were bug hunters and solution finders, now it has deteriorated into a kind of ad-hoc helpdesk. But Insiders are also too blame, far too many have taken this change with hardly a protest and dare not post anything negative for fear of being...oh, I don't know... deemed to be a trol?, banned perhaps? All I seem to read these days is how great MS is. Well, I don't agree, I think MS is doing a lousy job when it comes to keeping us informed on the current state of W10 of what it's plans are regarding it.

The Feedback Hub? What a completely useless piece of …..

Regards,

Stephen 

Stephan, I disagree with your points.  This forum has evolved in a natural way.  It has established itself and the WIP community has evolved to include it.  The size of the Insider user base doesn't matter.  The number of Insiders who use the forum remains microscopic (a few thousand out of 15 million at best) and that fact has not changed in three years.  It doesn't have to.  Look at the frequency of new threads.  One an hour?  Two hours?  Out of a base of 15 million. 

The users of this forum come and go as the issues showing up in the previews do.  A few are attracted to becoming regular forum lizards and a few of the formerly regular forum lizards move on.  It is the rhythm of life.

The old heads, like me, don't lose interest because MSFT has done anything.  We move on because we never made Windows or the WIP the center of our lives in the first place and more important things in our lives have followed the natural progressions of age, making how we spend our time change with it.  I have reached the point in my elder years (76) where I am more concerned about spending my time with my family and my life-long interests than with making Windows better for others.  

I don't try to "supervise" MSFT.  I don't claim to know whether it is doing a great job or a lousy one.  But it is doing a job - its job.  MSFT is a business and it is making a profit.  I have just been along for an interesting ride while I reach out and help fellow users.  I have never felt it was up to MSFT to entertain me.  My fellow users have been my interest (and with this bunch, my entertainment).