One thing bothers me with forums vs mailing list. For example if there is new exploit going on around there at servers (lets say a cvar that crashes the server if player types it in his/her console) and someone actually mentions about it at forums, suddenly post gets edited by moderator. So now what? Some people spread the thing and it spreads like wildfire on certain forums that are not under Valve moderators controll. All of us did not see the cvar before it was edited off, we cannot block it by flagging it as cheat with Eventscripts, Sourcemod or some other prog (like one of Nephs). This leaves our servers vulnerable for days before Valve gets around and makes a patch, if it happens at all (i'm not sure if OB affecting physics_select cvar can still be used to crash servers, or is it already patched?). If the message would be sent to here, we could just see the sent message and deal with it. No one likes crashy servers or to have one that could have been fixed by adding simple 1 line to config.
If you do want to migrate mailing list users to forums, you will lose some but more important is to give a lot of time for people to get used to forums. Less than 2 weeks notification of closure about this mailing list was pretty hard strike. Good thing these can now live on, much easier to follow. -ics Burton Johnsey kirjoitti: > 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 > - Search CAPTCHA - The captcha is only displayed when not logged in. As long > as you are logged in, you will never see a captcha while searching. > - 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_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
