Henri Kuiper wrote: >Wow. What a lot of pushback.
Well, nobody has offered any problem that this new forum is going to solve. Nor does that web page you cite: it says "I did this technically interesting thing", but that isn't solving a *problem*. That's my objection: we have a solution to the problem that works. If there's a better one, great; but there have, as has been noted, been several other fora created, and since none of them solved a problem that IBM-MAIN had, they're pretty well all dead. That's key both for products and open source offerings: there needs to be an actual problem that gets solved. Mattermost/MatterMost (it's unclear from that page which is the actual name) looks like yet another Teams/Lync/Fuze, and that's a real problem that companies have-but IBM-MAIN does not. For those of us who have been using email for 40+ years, email is a good solution for this kind of information. In fact, Teams (to pick one) fails, for me at least, because it's too ephemeral: I cannot easily search an archive of information that has appeared in Teams and extract valuable tidbits. Irritating. Old = good is foolish; so is new = good. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
