On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:20 PM, rick c wrote:
Obviously, that should have been
I'd rather not have them at all than have them neglected.
+1
When the forum was initially set up, I said "I'll never remember to
look at it, so let's do it only if there are folks who will remember
to look at it." or words to that effect. If we have a place where
people are posting questions, and those questions are being ignored,
that is actively damaging the users, and actively damaging the
reputation of the project.
If I install SoftwareQ, have a problem, ask a question, and am
ignored, I uninstall it and move on to SoftwareN. Every time. Nobody
has time to be ignored.
--Rich
Rick
On Nov 2, 10:16 pm, rick c <[email protected]> wrote:
I find it interesting that this thread has generated the most
interest
in the shortest period of time of anything that's been posted lately.
I also find it interesting that it was started on -dev, rather than
on
the forums or in -users.
That said, I don't think the problem is the lack of login
integration.
Those of us who have even a smattering of interest in the forums have
created logins there. If someone doesn't create a login because it's
separate, that's sad.
Rather, from what I remember, the intent was for the forums to be for
user to user help. If that isn't happening, whether because enough
informed users aren't using them or for some other reason, I'd say
there's no need for them at this time. I'd rather than have them at
all than have them neglected.
Rick
On Nov 2, 10:04 pm, Chris Meller <[email protected]> wrote:
Can you illustrate the reasons you find a separately-maintained
forum in any way superior to using the Google groups web
interface? To me it is identical: read previous messages in a
given thread and post responses or start a new thread.
On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Randy Walker wrote:
I prefer forums to a mailing list, usually. The Habari Forums
have had sort of a circular problem:
1) People would use them more if they didn't have to set up a
separate account from trac/wiki.
2) Nobody uses the forums so why bother set up login integration?
Also, the software powering the forums itself was an issue. I
don't recall any of the people who were initially for the forums
being in favor of Vanilla--it just got thrown up (heh?) as a stop-
gap measure. This is also partly the reason why there is no login
integration.
I am +1 for migrating from the current forum solution but -1 for
eliminating the forums altogether.
If we had integrated login, that'd be one hurdle leapt.
~Randy
P.S. Also, Google Groups is doing away with Welcome Messages,
Pages, and Files soon.
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