Hal, Thanks for the honest response and witty sarcasm. I think I may have missed something within all 40+ of the "Re: Forum Suggestion" posts, but my topica account had somehow become disabled. Fortunately, as of a few hours ago, my Topica priveleges have been reinstated.
FuseTalk will definetely work out well. Anandtech has been using it with great success for quite some time. I will be anxiously awaiting its debut. Will there be an effort to convert the thousands of posts on Topica into a publicly accessible and, most importantly, easily searchable system? Of the couple thousand posts I've had time to read over, the information contained in fusebox@topica is an invaluable resource that would be a crime to lose. In any case, I would like to thank all those devoting what little free time they have to getting us all onto a better system. -Frank hal helms wrote: > You're not at all out of line, Frank. Sometimes decisions get made as > the path of least resistance and it takes a crisis to jolt us all out of > our ingrained habits. I think the Fusetalk solution will be an > exceptionally good one, as it allows people to use forums, emails, or > news groups to access the same info. It will probably take us 4-6 weeks > to implement it as we're using volunteers who, though generously > donating their time, do have full time jobs. Some, I'm told, even have > lives, although this is unsubstantiated. > > In short, you're absolutely right. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Forum Suggestion & Topica Comments > > > I was wondering why I wasn't getting any emails from the Fusebox list, > so I logged on to the topica site to try to post. I hit the "Post" > button and an error "You have been disabled by the owner of this list" > came up. I can obviously just change email addresses, but I would like > to know whats going on. Given this latest issue, in a long string of > problems with Topica, I have decided to post my thoughts. > > I really hope some of the Fusebox leaders are reading the "Forum > Suggestion" thread. Out of the dozens of forum systems that I've used > as both a user and admin, I think Topica's system is one of the least > useful. Its nearly impossible to search past threads for information > and current threads are even hard to keep track of given that each > response is listed separately. I'm sure there are plenty of superior > alternatives, but I particular like > > vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/ > InfoPop's Ultimate Bulletin Board: > Board.http://www.infopop.com/products/ubb/index.html > > The fusebox Topica lists are some of the best sources of information > about Fusebox, and I'm sure many a developer have been turned off from > Fusebox by the poor design of the system. Its just too difficult to > extract information and answers from questions without having hours to > read through every post. I know you can create an app to index the > posts, but thats like attaching a jet engine to your yugo because it > keeps breaking down. Sure it'll fix the problem, but it'd be a lot > easier to just get rid of the source of the problem in the first place. > > I may be out of line with these comments, but I've personally had enough > > of reading through 300 posts each time I'm trying to find an answer. As > > someone who is new to Fusebox, I can say that it really makes learning > the methodology a pain in the neck. > > As I see it, we are using Topica because thats the way the FB community > has communicated in the past. Why can't we change this? I just don't > see any benefits to continuing to use such a system when so many people > are obviously dissatisfied with it. With all the smart people collected > > here and all the resources they bring with them, it just blows my mind > that we are using Topica at all. I don't have the clout to suggest > switching to a particular system, but maybe some of the prime movers in > this community will step up to the plate. > > Again, I apologize if I am out of line, but its something that needs to > be said. > > > > > ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
