Do you miss ASPToday.com?

For those of you who didn't have a subscription to the site, I wrote a monthly column on ASPToday that focused on various software development issues. Shortly after Wrox went into liquidation and ASPToday.com was "turned off", I had a handful of people send me email directly to voice their concern about ASPToday.com.

Now that ASPToday has been gone for a while, I'm curious to know if people miss it? Did you find it particularly useful? I found it quite useful but would not have subcribed under the current cost model. I did read most of the articles though and after a few months of using the site I began to turn to it as a regular source of information.

APress has purchased the rights to the domain name and I suppose it's not too far fetched to think that they may revive the site. Do you think that is a wise move? Can a subscription site like ASPToday compete with the likes of 4guysfromrolla.com, ASPAlliance.com, DotNetJunkies.com, AspFree.com, etc.? What features would make you pay money for ASPToday when there are plenty of free alternatives? Do those other sites stack up to ASPToday?

Speak your mind.....

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
  I really enjoyed the site in its prime. I thought it was worthwhile site but not really sure if it makes sense today.
  More comments in my blog
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
  Patrick Steele's .NET Blog
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
  SlavoF's WebLog
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
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• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
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• Anonymous
  May 25, 2003
  I do miss ASPToday, and I am really concerned by their huge resources whereabouts.
  
  It was for me since many years the reference for ASP and not so the best for. Net. However this site still provided a good value for money.
  I would like to see John Chapman bringing back live the resources, some are pure gems.
  I liked when I start .Net to take some 'old' articles and see how I can do the same with .Net.
  I paid as a subscriber and I really want to see the articles back in some place.
  ASPToday had also good value articles on subjects like XML or Databases.
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2003
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• Anonymous
  May 26, 2003
  Yeah, I definitely agree with Michael regarding his three points but I'm still not sure people will pay for it at this point in time.
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2003
  I liked CSharpToday's case studies much more than ASPToday's how to do X.
  
  As I said in my comments about aspnetPro, I have no problem paying for content, but if I do, it should be about something I don't know...or don't have the time to really explore.
  
  Painting a pretty picture on top of docs was nice during beta 1, but now, if you want my money, you will need to show me something that does not already exist on the 100's of community sites out there.
  
  The easiest way to be unique, is to write/publish something that requires some real effort and time. This after all is what I am paying for...your effort and time. If it is an article you could look at the docs for 20 minutes, spend a couple of hours writing and then publish...why would I pay you when I could do the same thing.
  
  I told you before (I think) I liked your ASPToday column because it wasn't something that could not be reproduced else where.
  
  -Scott
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2003
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  May 27, 2003
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  June 19, 2009
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