Thank you very much Burton. You brought up my main concern with the forums.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=800001 I do my best to make the transition and the first post to my thread is a stupid "you posted in the wrong place". We need a place that is strictly dedicated to server operators with the sole purpose of working as a community to figure out answers to issues. I feel that a membership only section for server operators would be a great step in the right direction. It would also be nice to have certain abilities in there. Uploading certain files, such as text, dump files, images, and other non-executable files. We have a LOT of incredibly smart people with amazing ideas on the HLDS mailing list. What the list is lacking is organization, and the forum would really help with that. Allowing responses to subscribed threads to be sent to our emails would also be a great help. Instantly receiving and following certain posts is something I really enjoy about this list. Again, thank you very much for reconsidering this. Thank you, Alec Sanger P: 248.941.3813 F: 313.286.8945 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:41:39 -0800 > Subject: Re: [hlds] Important notice regarding the HLDS mailing lists > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_howitworks_022009 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
