Forums are good for something's, admin interaction is not one of
those things I'm afraid.
The primary reason for this is that forums are a pull technology
and not push. Full time admins simply don't have the time to go
and look for information and as such a mailing list is the only
viable option.
Take myself for example I monitor over 30 server mailing lists,
if all these where forums this would just eat most of my day
every day to just keep up to date on the various issues.
A great example of this is the update notifications, moving to
a forums solution would require everyone to be logged browsing
the forums 24/7 instead of just having their usual email client
open, and no forum subscriptions aren't a workable alternative.
Forums maybe more accessible to the average "user" who has the
odd issue or wants to chat, but that's not the same as the
average "admin" who is interested in keeping abreast of ongoing
and new issues, which doesn't fit into the forum model.
A forums solution will be useless to virtually everyone here
so please don't consider it. Your admins are the backbone of
your community and removing the lists will cripple us.
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Burton Johnsey" <[email protected]>
> 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.
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