Personally I feel that the StackExchange interface is more accessible to newcomers than mailing lists or Worg. Its a great way to ask a questions and get an answer.
The mailing list is better at having conversations about a topic. Worg is a great resource for hand-curated advice, which will always be useful. I would definitely use a StackExchange-like application for Org if it existed. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Memnon Anon <gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thomas Renkert <tunnelbl...@quantentunnel.de> writes: > >> I noticed that - as more people with a diverse range of background knowledge >> start to use orgmode - the mailing list is getting more and more difficult to >> navigate: > > I do agree that the volume of mails did considerably increase. > >> a lot of threads are long and winding and many of the posts are basic >> questions from beginners and questions about special use cases or scenarios >> from >> more experienced users. > > At this point, however, I have a different impression. > Yes, there are some long threads, but those seem to be rarley those > interesting for new users while setting up their orgworld. > Those threads are *imho* usually about new features that need > discussion, clarification etc.: a ping pong of ideas. > When subareas emerge, tags like [BABEL] or now [CALFW] make it easy to > parse them out if you are not interested. > > OTOH, I am used to dealing with mailing lists and I find them very > convenient. Others may very well have a different impression. > Is this worth a poll in a new thread? > >> An idea: >> Many of you may be familiar with the Q&A-Sites www.stackoverflow.com or >> www.superuser.com. > > There are already some questions about org on stackoverflow, if people > are interested in this format, they can already go there. Setting this > up seems overkill to me, especially, because we have Worg to collect > the nuggets of all threads. If newcomers find the volume on this list > overwhelming, I think splitting it into a -dev and a -user list would > be the next logical step, first. > > However, I am not opposed to this idea when others agree it would be > usefull. I can't really see myself using it so far, but that may very > well change. > > Memnon > > > > -- -Rehan