Burton, Thanks for the reply! I think we were assuming more of a 'too-many-vocal-idiots' reason for your decision moreso than your logical one. I certainly agree that there are many aspects to a forum that would help the community, but, at the same time, there are many of us that manage our own communities and are not keen on having another bookmarked forum to go and visit. The mailing list method not only keeps it more 'exclusive' (there is a great sentiment that having people who arn't serious server administrators in the discussion will cause a lot of issues), but also keeps it pushed to our personal emails and is a lot more direct and helpful for this kind of discussion.
Now go fix that lag bug. ;) - Neph On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Burton Johnsey <[email protected]> wrote: > Given the feedback received from the list, we are holding off migrating the > mailing lists to the forums. > > The intent of migrating to the forums was to leverage the benefits and > features of the forums to further strengthen the community, giving us a > central spot to gather feedback. The forum software is continually being > updated by vBulletin and is flexible enough to also allow us to add our own > features. > > To address a couple of specific concerns about the forums: > > - Membership - We can keep the membership in the DS forums private so that > random forum users cannot post. > - Moderation - We can assign moderators for specific forums. Moderators would > be volunteers from the current mailing list participants. > - Forum server performance - We have upgraded the system that runs the forums > and we do not experience the lag we were experiencing in the past > - The forums are accessible to more people than the mailing list. > > We want to make things better, not worse. We appreciate any further > feedback you have to offer. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Burton Johnsey > Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:38 PM > Subject: Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists > To: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, > Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > We will be shutting down the HLDS mailing lists on Friday, February 20th. > > After February 20th, all server discussions should take place in one of the > forums listed below. > > Windows server discussion should be conducted here: > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=44 (Source) > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16 (Gldsrc) > > Linux server discussion should be conducted here: > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45 (Source) > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 (Gldsrc) > > If you have not already done so, please register a forum > account<http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/register.php>. > > NOTE: The mailing list archives will still be available for viewing. > > -BurtonJ > Valve Software > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
