On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:14:54 -0800 (PST) Hugh Gleaves <hugh.glea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to see a forum is all I mean, the format interaction and > usability are weak in mailing lists, IRC is ancient and StackOverflow > is not confined to Git. > > e.g. > > https://forums.asp.net/ > > https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/home?category=sqlserver > > http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ > > These are just better UIs and more friendly that these other > character oriented systems - IMHO That's fine until you have 2-3 forums to participate on. I'm subscibed to more than a dozen of mailing lists, and _then_ it's apparent that forums would just not scale to that degree for me -- emails are way simpler to wield then: you get notification of someone's post right into your inbox and then you just reply to it right away. No need to log into some (usually crappy, and -- which is worse -- different for different forums) web interface to respond, you just do that. All sensible MUAs show you threads you're participating in using nice tree views with read/unread state of messages. And as to "accessible" interfaces for asking about Git, just check out the Git tag at SO [1] -- there are gazillions of idiotic questions getting asked and answered each day. I once get bored and answered there a question titled "How to log first 10 in Git?" -- a question, an answer to it could be obtained by searching in the `git log` manual page for some 30 seconds, -- and guess what? it became the most upvoted answer among all my answers on SO :-) Your passage about character-oriented systems, I cannot comprehend -- aren't we exchange text messages no matter whether this happens on a mailing list or a web-based forum? 1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/git -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
