So, Woody just suggested that an active thread be moved out of the main channel so as to not disrupt others. While I think it was a good topic to keep in the group's visibility, his question of "can I move this to a sub folder" reminded me of something.
Google Groups kinda sucks. To be fair, it's become our home. This is the most active repository of information for coworking, and the place where I send people first to learn more and meet more coworking people. But the Google Group is anything but good for discovery. Spam moderation is chaos for the people who actively manage it. The lack of sub-threads is annoying, and the lack of message context makes it hard to know what messages to pay attention to. Recently, the open source javascript library jQuery moved away from Google Groups for a lot of these same reasons...to Zoho forums. I did some research and found that a Zoho forum to support our group would cost $75/month, and incur a one-time $500 fee to migrate all of the existing data (messages, threads, and even users) from Google Groups to Zoho. There's even an option to interact with Zoho via e-mail for those of us that like this. The pros: - Much better organization of our knowledge. The ability to set message "topics" to things like "question", "introduction", "idea" would be HUGE for this group. - Easier on-boarding for new members - Better spam moderation tools The cons: - It's not free - Since it's not free, somebody needs to pay for it, which means somebody is ultimately a "keyholder" The cons aren't huge, but they do need to be addressed. I think this could be a very valuable evolution of this discussion forum that we all love so much. What say you, the coworking group? -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
