Plus, most forum email notification systems only email once there is a
new post to a thread and not once for each new post.
On 10/24/2011 8:45 PM, Wander wrote:
Most forum email notification systems have the following problems:
- The mail doesnt contain the message, but simply a link to the forums
- You can't reply to the mail (and have that message be posted on the
forums that way)
- Mails arent grouped together (for gmail users), but each
notification is a new entry in the inbox
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 02:40, Jake Haldeman<[email protected]> wrote:
I think announcements are really nice in the list format, troubleshooting and
trolling seems to be better in a forum. I know when I'm dealing with an issue
I visit the forum frequently to stay up to date.
It would be nice to not miss update announcements mixed in with people asking
about server specs which seemed to have triggered a lot of discussion....
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Botting
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 6:36 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Forum vs. email list
Actually, no.
I probably wouldn't follow it in a Web browser. As it is everything gets pinged
straight to my phone.
On 25 Oct 2011, at 01:34, Fletcher Dunn<[email protected]> wrote:
I am honestly astounded by the amount of people who complain when
people ask for help on help forums or mailing lists. Not everyone
signs up and instantly reads everything, goes through all the
archives, or spends hours researching.
I'd like to use this comment as a springboard for a discussion about the format
of this list.
I hear that a few years ago the idea of migrating the email list to a forum was
kicked around. However, at the time (is this still true today?) the users of
the list didn't like the idea. it is my understanding that most server admins
prefer:
1.) Receiving push notifications.
2.) Viewing the list in their email client
#1 seems like a really compelling advantage (especially for announcements),
while #2 seems like a personal preference, and many people have the opposite
preference.
A forum has several compelling advantages:
1.) Easier to search and find answers to previously asked questions
2.) Easier to follow a thread of conversation. (I personally find any
email distribution list to become unreadable pretty much instantly,
with all the>>>>'s and broken line breaks that everybody's mail
clients and put everywhere.)
3.) Easier to modify your post if you notice a mistake or want to clarify
something, rather than making a new post.
4.) Easier to delete or move posts if they are spam, rude, inappropriate,
belong in the general TF2 SPUF forum, etc.
5.) Easier to ignore an entire thread that you are not interested in.
Could there be some sort of forum + push notification that would satisfy what
everybody wants? This list exists to serve you guys, so I'm curious what
everything thinks. I *believe* most of the guys would find a forum format
(perhaps with some push notification) more convenient.
It would be good to get some opinions about how people prefer to consume the
information on this list.
Please chime in.
Your humble servant,
- Fletch
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