On 9/20/06, Aaron Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And I disagree with you. Web forums are usenet reinvented poorly. It's impossible to keep track of what's new, threading is either poor or nonexistent. Mailing lists with searchable archives work well. gmane provides a nice usenet interface to mailing lists.
I don't recognize the forums I frequent in your description at all. I have absolutely no problem keeping up with what's new. In fact I find it a lot easier since many of the topics take place in subforums that I know don't interest me, so I don't even need to go there to check. With this mailing list, I have to manually "mark as read" about 2/3 of all incoming mails because they don't (from the title) interest me, and I have to read a few that don't interest me because I couldn't tell from the title. Threading also works as well as could be expected, better than threading in gmail for instance, so I don't see the problem here either.
> It's all there, all the time. Yes, that's part of the problem.
How is that? You mean because all the old stuff gets in the way of the new? Then you're just using a bad forum software that can't properly point out the new stuff for you. I agree that not all forums are good, but there are definitely those that are.
> It is also easy to create sub-groups/forums for specific projects, This is the one semi-useful thing. Of course, what you end up with is another not-so-useful forum.
This is probably the one most useful thing yes. I wouldn't call it semi-useful though. Just remember all the responses that the HCAR gets each year of the form "wow how many cool projects are out there that I had no clue existed". What if all (or many of) those projects were actually there, on the forums, where everyone knew where to look? And your last sentence, I just don't understand. "not-so-useful" just because it's a forum, or did you mean somethine else as well? /Niklas _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
