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I have to agree completely. Does anyone know the actual legality of this - i.e. claiming something that is free to be your own "property"?

I wish I had made a full archive of the site just before it moved, but I will definitely make one now. I won't pay EarthWeb for code the author wants to be free.

This has the potential to be a major blow to my development as a programmer. I have visited Codeguru.com on a daily basis for over a year. It has been the best C++ development site on the web for a long time.

Birch Champeon

The fixed width makes it more difficult to read than before.
The wavy line also makes reading somewhat unpleasant on any but the home page.

The wavy left margin causes problems, look at that page
http://www.codeguru.com/controls/gridctrl.shtml

Also on a 1024x768 screen this page does not expand correctly to fill the screen. At least not on mine. Shame on you zafir you have allowed a useful site to be destroyed.

it is true
a) the wavy left margin sucks
b) the search engine doesn't work

I have to admit, this was my favorite site because it offered straight forward no nonsence information. Now I have to deal with some art guy telling me I need to look at a pleasant green wave that gets in the way of what I want. Also, I can't seem to get the search to work when it does I have to stop loading the banners because it takes me to a failed page. I must agree this was an exceptional page expecially for getting fast answers now it falls into the same slow developer.com pages.

It was nice, while it lasted...
Sorry EarthWeb, but you have to learn the hard way...

Now that you've gone and changed the site, all my bookmarks to the various
newsgroups are broken. Not only did I have bookmarks to 5 or 6 of my favorite
groups, I had bookmarks to the individual topic threads as well. They saved me
a lot of time sifting through all the messages just to find what I was looking
for. All of these bookmarks no longer work. Thanks a lot. - Jim

I don't like the fact that codeguru has been swallowed up,but I guess you have to make a buck too.. There was nothing wrong with it before. Growing up from a nice grassroots beginnings it had appeal to the independent "basement" programmer. Now that it is perceived to be semi-commercialized then I see some of those fickle programmers finding another home for their code and their thoughts.

On previously hit link, your grayed out text is too hard to read and sometimes I wish to return to a previously hit link. Hard to find in the list.

Hope you made a ton of money in selling this to Earth Web. Still the best C++ site available.

This once magnificent site has been completely destroyed. It looks terrible, none of the contributors have any rights to their articles any more, it doesn't work, and in general went from a grade A site to a grade Z site in less than 24 hours. Congratulations on making the biggest mistake in the shortest time ever! This is a real disappointment.

It's great to see one of us make it big time. How much did you sell it for ? I'll still use it as one of my code sites, I'm not going to join the "your a sell out" bandwagon that so many seem to be doing just to go along with the rest of the sheep. "BAAAA BAAA your a sellllll out I'll never use this site again" said the sheep before slaughter.

All you stupid fools every one of you would of done the same thing as Zafir. You should be happy that one of us made it and doesnt have to code like a monkey just to make a decent living. You all sound like sheep with all the "sell out", "I'll never use this site again" bullshit crap. You sound like little teenagers who get pissed when their favorite band gets signed to a major label.
And whats this crap about authors not having rights to their articles. booo hooo waaaa waaaa . What rights did they have in the first place Zafir always had discrimination over all the articles and could exercise it at any time. And do you think that earthweb would really do that, yeah you stupid idiot earthweb is going to totally lock up codeguru so that nobody can right articles or anything yeah that makes sense!!! Go back to your job with your name on your shirt you don't deserve to be one of the elite known as programmers. For the rest of you be happy for the man he worked hard and deserves every $$$.

I whole-heartedly agree with this sentiment. Codeguru became popular because of the grassroots efforts. Quality people wrote quality articles. Now, with the amount of commercialization, it's bound to turn-off future contributors and original fans. I don't expect anything worth reading in the future. Time to look elsewhere.

Earthweb pages are hideous to look at. It used to be that you could print out the content and have a nice readble article. Or you could save it as html (with images) and with a few strokes, have a clean print out. Now, it's unbearable to read on print.

These net 'content' providers don't get it-- ads are effective only if there are few (max of 2 per page). The moment you flood people with filthe, people become quick with their reflexes and mentally sort out ad and content spaces on a web page in a matter of split seconds. In those cases, the ads are almost always ignored. That seems like common sense-- why don't people follow the fewer-ads-higher-charges idea. I don't know who is more lacking in intelligence: the content providers who flood with ads or the people who advertise in those spaces.

Earthweb style is almost as bad as Cnet. I'd give Earthweb just a few months before they start splitting nice articles into a few paragraphs per page and making you go to the next page -- etc. But it doesn't matter anymore... just like how I stopped visiting Cnet, I'll stop visiting Codeguru. I'll check a few times to see if they clean up the new act.

To the Codeguru staff: sell-out, make your money... that's okay. Don't loose the style and elegance that brought the people in.

Let's see, take a perfectly functional, properly laid out website which has taken a very long time to build up a loyal following and completely
destroy it. Smart, not very.
I thought CGuru was supposed to be an innovative technology site. Maybe the content is still good, when you can find it. But wavy lines
down the side apart, it makes your eyes bleed to look at it.

Want to improve the site, put it back the way it bloody was. In fact don't bother, there are other sites out there which suddenly look much
more interesting.