On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:28 AM Norby Droid via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos?
This question comes up from time to time, and the consensus has always been a clear "No." Email lists work very well for discussion, especially for developers, and email is an open standard that works for everyone. Migrating to a web forum also adds questions like "what platform will everyone want to use?" (several to choose from) and "who will maintain the web forum" (upgrades) "is the web forum accessible for everyone?" (if some users cannot use it because it's poorly designed for accessibility, then it's useless for communication). There's also an additional issue of user login data (such as GDPR) and clearing data upon request (required by other laws) that we don't have to worry about since we are using the email list service provided by SourceForge (for almost all of the "data" issues, SF deals with that as the service provider or host). So as long as SF provides the email list service, I think we'll keep using those. Especially for developer discussion. But I get it that some folks prefer a web forum to ask user questions. As Eric pointed out, BTTR's forum is there (although BTTR's forum is for *any* DOS topics, not just FreeDOS - and sometimes the topics there wander quite far from "DOS"). The FreeDOS group on Facebook also has good "user" discussions - this is another venue to ask "how do I do __ on FreeDOS?" questions. https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedosproject/ *As an aside: we aren't the only open source project that "still" uses email lists for developer communication. For example, LKML is where Linux developers discuss Linux kernel development topics. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
