I think you are being very unfair about this whole situation. I dedicate 18+
hours a day to PHP and the PHP Community. I think I deserve a little more
respect than you give me. I have built a large community of people that do
nothing but help each other with PHP. In case you haven't noticed, our site
has become one of the Premiere PHP sites on the net, right next to
phpbuilder and a couple other giants with corporate backing.
All I am asking is for a link, a Community Link, which is what we are. In
exchange for that, I can understand if you removed my link from your Links
page.
There are of couse many successful PHP communities out there, including SitePoint Forums, Weberdev, PHPBuilder, even the Zend Community. If you look closely to the list of links on the frontpage, you can see, that the Community parts reflects the community PHP *is in*, and not the PHP community itself (except PHP Developer Network). None else, but I was that particular person, who extended that community list to include PHPDevNet, because I felt a major hub of the PHP community should be listed there. I regret that I have made that decision, and caused problems between us.
To make things clean and clear it would be ideal from our point to remove the PHPDevNet link, and stay with the original concept of that list.
I am very sad to say that my dealings with the inner-workings of PHP (you at
the moment) are turning out to be a major disappontment considering how much
work I put into the community.
I am very sad that you felt that my message is offensive against you. You can be sure that I am as most of the guys here devote the majority of the daytime to open PHP projects, and we respect others who do so.
I already said I would comply with your wishes regarding the w3exit. I will
completely remove it from my site.
I still wonder that you read my few lines correcty, although I have asked you to do it again. I said that w3exit would be a reason alone not to list your site, but I have added that we are not to put up your link (or any other PHP site anyway) to that list, beucase the intention of that list is not to list PHP sites. We have the links page for that reason, and you are already listed on the links page. BTW we have refused previous link addition requests (to links.php) because sites were w3exit members, or had extensive number of disturbing (popup) ads, so you are still in better position then others.
I am prepared to remove the DevNetwork link, as it changed to be "just a forum site" since it was started, and it does not seem to be what it was intended to be anymore...
Goba