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See, here, I think of Cosmos as the golden age - everyone had their own web pages, addons we being co-opted into the UI repeatedly, and each update was easier to code around because not so many things depend upon it.
Right now, we're at a point at which many of the code-focused users are at burn-out, and the playerbase that fills in - while the number are the same - isn't as tech savvy as it was. So there are less coders to maintain things than there were before. But there are more things to maintain now!
And it's easier for a change from Blizzard to blow up many UI changes. So WoWWiki is sold, WoWpedia tries, and no one really seems to offer an up-to-date thesaurus of functions.
Even LUA development outside of WoW hit its apex three years ago and is harder to support now, because many have moved on to more focused programming languages on the hot development targets like iPhone et al.
What is 'hot' in development has literally nothing to do with the actual user or installed base. It has to do with the amount of investor cash in that arena. More money is spent on mobile applications not because there is as much money to be made there, but because investors want to get at the money in a less stratified environment.
I'm getting to the point that I'm embarrassed to even mention my age. I came into the internet only a couple years before 'Forever September' and yet I don't have much to show for it. My spouse has literally been coding applications for the internet for 22 years now. What do you have to say after that, other than, 'been there, done that, wish it could actually get done?' Heck, some of the code she wrote should've been one of many examples to negate Amazon's one-click patent, and she wrote them as work for hire. So even though the company still exists, and doesn't sell videos anymore but instead sells web shopping carts based on her code, she gets nada.
-Crissa
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