At 11:43 PM -0400 4/18/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote:
or we could have a forums site.
To be honest, going pure forums is a deal breaker with me. I haunt
LEM because, in addition to the good people, it's a convenient set of
email lists that I can quickly access with little to no effort. I
just don't have the time to plod thru web-based forums more than once
every few weeks or months.
Google Groups are a good deal, as they're backed with a half-decent
forum-ish web interface with a good search function.
Now... if you want to change something,,, then merge these LEM lists
into fewer ones and set them up so they can be easily cross-searched
on the Groups interface.
<semi-rant>
It really bugs me when we move away from better technology simply to
accommodate the masses.
In the beginning, ok well, sometime after strung monkeys and before
iPhones, there were USENET Newsgroups and Email lists. They were,
and are, fast and efficient for everything from conversation to
technical support to pure science. Their nature, as highly
distributed systems, made them nearly impervious to outages and data
loss. Life was good.
Then came the portals - AOL, CompuServe, etc - with their awful
dial-up BBS holdover "forums". Basically, they were environments
designed to make newbies comfortable.
Then came the Internet & the WWW. And like grotesque barnacles,
those frakking forums crept in.
Forums are like the old QWERTY keyboard. They're designed to be slow
in order to feel good on the technology of that day. I guess for
newbies they're still easy to understand. But when you need to
process a lot of data quickly, they're totally useless. And they're
a fragile single-point of failure... prone to data loss and other
outages.
- Dan.
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