>>For Twitter integration, I would imagine that a user would be able to subscribe a specific forum, and have notification of new threads sent to twitter. Might be good for getting the UT name out there.
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>Do you see all the new thread titles based on your list of forums for participation, minus the ones from the category filter? If all, then this can send a lot of tweets to your account.

High level, I would imagine being alerted to all new .NET threads in Twitter, or any other forum based on my preference. Note I said thread, not message. I get a lot of junk in my Twitter account already, but most tools have filtering and grouping tools.

>>For number 6, I was thinking a non-subscriber would have an hour delay or so before their new threads would be published. It's not really limiting the functionality, but hampering it a bit. I know that a lot of my questions previously have been fairly time-critical.
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>Well, one important thing is that I am trying to avoid removing something that is already there for someone. Also, as I said, it is important that regular members can post as is.

I agree. Some may feel slighted by limiting current functionality.

>>To be completely honest, there are so many free options out there now that provide more value for me than the UT. My participation has gone down because I've found other arenas that better fit the style of development that I am doing. If I were doing VFP development anymore then certainly I would consider it. I have received a lot of help on the UT over the years, but my preferred method of payback is to help answer questions when I can.
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>What is the new environment you are using?

I am currently using mostly ASP.NET (moving to MVC quickly) with NHibernate, DDD, StructureMap, etc. I've noticed that a majority of .NET developers posting on UT use DataSets and more relational representations of data. I suspect that is from most having a VFP background. However, I've gotten fairly comfortable using more of a DDD approach w/ ORM and a large majority of the messages/topics no longer apply to me. I find more applicable reference on other forums as well as on Twitter.

I don't envy your position as you currently have a lot of competition.

I find myself participating less in online communities lately anyway due to time constraints.