Goodbye MXNA

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I owe MXNA a lot. I can still remember how awesome I thought it was to get aggregated on MXNA because it opened up a whole world of Flex/Flash developers who would be seeing my blog posts. In a lot of ways I owe my job to the fact that I got aggregated by MXNA because it helped me get noticed. I always thought it was a great resource for aspiring and established developers and I’ve checked it every day since I joined Adobe.

Unfortunately it’s had some issues. It’s been down and the number of blogs that we aggregate has led to more noise on MXNA. As a result, we’ve decided to take it down. It’s tough to see such a huge part of the community go away but I hope that something else can rise and take its place. Ideally Adobe can find some resources to resurrect it because for many, many people it’s been a great resource and a great way into the community.

I’d love to hear your favorite MXNA stories, especially for those of you who, like me, were stoked when you got the email that you’d been added.

[tags]MXNA, Adobe, Macromedia, Blogging, Todays Date[/tags]

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  • http://www.philosophyme.com Rick Smith

    MXNA’s had its troubles lately, but I completely rely on it for all my Adobe related material. This so better be an April Fool’s joke!!!

  • fel

    whoah – harsh! Why not open source it? or am I missing the joke?

    I agree on MXNA losing its usefulness – there needs to be more editorial control as to who gets added. I rarely visit anymore, instead I check my favorite flash dev feeds in google reader.

  • http://www.neatfilm.com George

    Ahhhhhh

    I’m so sad.

    ..

    To be fooled.

  • http://savvasmalamas.com/blog savvasmalamas

    Can you imaging? Nooooo!!!
    God I hate this day..

  • http://initapp.com Steven Gemmen

    I also hope this is an april fools day joke. MXNA is the cornerstone of the Adobe development community. Could the load have anything to do with the fact that more and more people use it everyday? Its a good thing adobe.com isn’t being used that much, we’d have to take that down too. MXNA has always felt like a great bond between Adobe and the Adobe Dev Community, its something i’ve loved since switching the majority of my development from microsoft.net. Don’t break that.

    Steven

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Okay, just so no one gets freaked out since I’ve had 29 hits and 5 comments (a pretty good ratio) this *is* an April Fools joke. I think April 1 jokes have to be 1) believable, 2) topical, and 3) meaningful. This fits all three. I want to hear your great MXNA stories.

    The ‘Todays Date’ tag didn’t give it away?

  • http://initapp.com Steven Gemmen

    Ahh Ryan… you owned me on that one. I’m so gullible.. i think i’ve been rickrolled at least 5 times today. But since you brought it up do you think you could fix it? I also agree with the idea of more filtering when it comes to who gets added… possibly a voting system where you would need to get 50 current mxna member votes to be added… just a thought…

    You can read about my mxna story here: http://tinyurl.com/3bzadr
    :) Steven

  • Harry

    They cannot take it away! It is the only one site I visit everyday!

    This is a huge resource for many people I know!

  • http://www.philosophyme.com Rick Smith

    WHEW!!! Good one though. :)

    as for stories…

    I was stoked when I got the email from MXNA only to realize the blog I had just finished writing didn’t do pings. I thought pings were completely irrelevant until I needed them… served as a valuable lesson for me in coding applications I’m going to share with the public. So I’ve been manually pinging MXNA ever since. I’ll get that ping feature written in there someday.

    IR NOOB

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Haha, that’s awesome Rick. I’m actually doing the same thing (manual ping). Even though I am using WordPress I accidentally set it to not ping MXNA and I’ve been too lazy to go back and figure out my ping URL. http://weblogs.macromeda.com/mxna/PingProxy.cfm is booked marked for me :)

  • http://endquote.com/ Josh Santangelo

    Bummer about MXNA.

    Thought you’d like to know that in your feed, each post is tagged with “current mortgage rates” and a link to somewhere shady. I’m seeing this in FeedDemon 2.6.

  • Mike

    Unfortunately, this would make a better April 1st headline: “MXNA to get improved stability and speed.” It’s hard to believe something that important to the Web dev community is in such bad shape!

  • http://www.zeh.com.br Zeh

    Gah!

    Oops, just realized what day is today. Whew.

  • http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog Brian Rinaldi

    Yeah, its been flakier than usual lately, which made this *very* believable. In fact, I think it took both of the past two weekends off entirely.

  • http://www.nodans.com Dan Wilson

    MXNA has jumped the shark…
    I use http://allyourflexarebelongtous.com/ which is quite reliable and geared for Flex developers.

    DW

  • Bill Flanagan

    “I think April 1 jokes have to be 1) believable, 2) topical, and 3) meaningful.”

    You forgot one: 4) funny.

    Fail.

  • http://www.johncblandii.com John C. Bland II

    I think my best story is this: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1027413. :-)

    Mike and I built that years ago and it was cool to have MXNA running on my phone. :-)

  • http://www.munkiihouse.com Tony Fendall

    Ryan, you almost gave me a heart attack :) It would be a disaster if MXNA were to go away.

    I still remember getting the email which said my blog had been added. Since then my monthly hits have grown steadily, and it’s cool to be able to invest in the community.

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog Scott Barnes

    lol i got 1/4′d … nice one stewart..

    I was like.. “..Oh come on Adobe, please tell me you’re not that stupid…”

    I actually would like to thank MXNA for helping me into the career I’m in now, seriously.. MXNA made me who I am today..if that’s a good thing?

    -
    Scott Barnes
    Microsoft.

  • http://blog.everythingflex.com Rich Tretola

    Wow, definitely believable especially since I missed it yesterday. I do love MXNA and like many others who responded in the comments, it absolutely open doors for me as well.

  • Jamie McDaniel

    This reminded me of that Burger King commercial… we took the whopper off the menu. What happened was, people freaked. “I want your manager at the window.”

  • http://www.neilmiddleton.com Neil Middleton

    *ahem* There’s always http://www.feed-squirrel.com