Mike Parker wrote:
A big start would be ditching the newsgroups for proper forum software. I know a lot of people here prefer the newsgroups, but like it or not this is 2010. Newsgroups are from yesteryear. People who weren't online in their heyday don't expect to have to use them (for that matter, there are those who *were* around and don't expect to have to use them). When someone checks out a project for the first time, it's quite common these days that one of the first stops is the project's forums. No forums? Ah well, too bad. Next project.
A counterpoint is that the serious work that goes on with C++ is done with mailing lists, which behave pretty much like a private newsgroup. You could argue that the people who work on C++ are older fuddy-duddies, with some justification, but still, they are very serious and find the format effective.
But you still have a good point.
