Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
Who do you think you are that you force users to use a non-standard access method to your forums?
IMHO, most user forums for popular open source products like Hibernate have too much traffic to be useful. The forums are much more organized than a mailing list, which allows the developers to respond to 'reasonable' questions and filter out the redundant ones (just try posting a question to the ANT user mailing list, you'll see what I mean). That's just my opinion based on being involved in a few open source projects as both a user and a developer.
Even major IT companies provide standard nntp forums (or mailinglists).
Being "major" doesn't always mean better. I used to work for a major IT company, and well... they might have had a user list, but none of the developers ever looked at it. ;)
I will write within "devel", as I refuse to write in this childish html thing (which reminds me those phpbb):
Well, even though the forum is an "html thing" it is pretty easy to use. :) To configure your forum account to send you e-mails on every post, or just the replies to the posts that you have made simply log in and click the 'preferences' button. From there, select the email preferences radio buttons and click save.
Enjoy!
Josh
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