Kent, The forum seems to stay more focused on the question at hand and does not drift off topic much and almost zero idle chit chat. It's a different medium, and as for topics covered like the mailing list and the IRC they are wide and varied. Are they the same topics as the mailing list? Vary rarely will a topic be broadcast over all three communication avenues.
If there is a topic your interested in on the forum it is pretty easy to lurk and just read the ones interesting to you. The forum doesn't have near the traffic or static that the mailing list has so it only takes me a few minutes a day to at least scan every post. If you have never been to the forum it is broken down into sections and subsections by topic. For example there is a Hardware section that contains Computer, Driver Boards, and CNC Machines and like wise for other sections. The forum is active enough that since it has been turned on there have been 29,984 messages in 3150 subjects. The most poplar is General LiniuxCNC Questions with 622 topics and next is Advanced Configuration with 299 topics. FAQ's are stickey to the top of a section so you don't have to wade through all the topics looking for common answers. If I had to guess I'd say there is 20 times more traffic here than on the forum but so much is not on topic it is hard to stay focused. Then you have abby normal people like me that prefer top posting because I like to see the reply first and not wade down through a long email with a bunch of signatures and ads to find the reply(s). But that is just my personal preference. For me the forum is much better organized from a subject point of view with 22 sections related to LinuxCNC not counting the International Users sections and forum sections. As for the question should someone read the forum, only they can answer that. John On 2/19/2013 11:12 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > On 2/18/2013 10:05 AM, John Thornton wrote: >> No, the forum is like the IRC and a separate communications medium that >> many prefer. > John: > > All my email---and we're talking three different accounts---passes into > my client, which functions as a virtual one-stop-shop. > > As it is, I barely have time to look at my unread messages let alone go > to the forum site to look for new topics/messages or attempt to stick my > teacup into the firehose stream that is the IRC. > > In your opinion, do the forum and the email list(s) tend to cover the > same issues or are there topics discussed on one that aren't on the > other? Perhaps more to the point, on the basis of information rather > than preference, should one be reading the forum regularly even if not > actively using it? > > > Regards, > Kent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
