Ed, did you try that? https://accounts.eclipse.org/users/emerks#tab-forums
Antoine __________________________ Antoine THOMAS aka ttoine Product Manager Eclipse Foundation [email protected] +33663137906 @ttoine On 22 February 2017 at 09:30, Ed Merks <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > The newsgroups were good but the forum has always been bad. The syncing > didn't work well, and even when it did work, it butchered any HTML > newsgroup posts and it butchered forum posts. To fix that problem, the > newsgroups were finally killed and now traffic is dramatically reduced > across the board, as Tom too has noticed and as I asked about in Bugzilla: > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=348464#c99 > > But apparently the current situation is more cool than before, though in > the end, it seems that the current approach serves no one very well: users > are asking fewer questions and it's harder to track and answer the > questions that are asked. > > It's a daily frustration for anyone like me who answers a lot of questions: > > https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=usrinfo&id=2253&; > > > > On 22.02.2017 09:08, Sohn, Matthias wrote: > >> +1, I second Tom’s opinion >> >> -Matthias >> >> On 22/02/2017, 08:44, "[email protected] on behalf of Tom >> Schindl" <[email protected] on behalf of >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> The following is my personal opinion and includes some frustration so >> take it with a grain of salt. >> Well in the good old times we ALL used newsgroups who had been >> perfectly >> integrated into mail-clients, then came the forums (we've been told >> that >> the cool kids are not using newsgroups and it was too much work to >> keep >> the sync between those in place) and are now stuck with them, >> although they: >> - managed to drop the traffic eg for e(fx)clipse by I'd say >70% >> - don't work reliable >> - ... >> Bottom line: Eclipse.org forces you, your contributors, users >> to give up >> on old habits and use an IMHO not useable forum software (you loose >> replies, sometimes it is offline, ...). >> I've not made the decision for e(fx)clipse what we'll use for >> the future >> (google-groups eg integrate with mail-clients) but if you want to do >> yourself a favor don't start with the forum thing. >> The criteria: >> - needs support async communication >> - needs to integrate into my mail client >> - needs to be available on mobile devices >> - needs to be available in a browser >> - (extra bonus) should integrate itself into my IDE >> Tom >> On 21.02.17 17:45, Kevin Sutter wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Is there an email address that can be used for posting replies to >> the >> > Eclipse forums? I know we can subscribe to get emails for the new >> posts >> > to our forum, but I haven't found anything that shows that we >> could post >> > to the forums via email. Is this a limitation of the Eclipse >> forums? >> > >> > Some of our users process everything via email and having this >> access >> > (read and post) to the forums is required. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Kevin >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > incubation mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or >> unsubscribe from this list, visit >> > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation >> > >> -- >> Thomas Schindl, CTO >> BestSolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH >> Eduard-Bodem-Gasse 5-7, A-6020 Innsbruck >> http://www.bestsolution.at/ >> Reg. Nr. FN 222302s am Firmenbuchgericht Innsbruck >> _______________________________________________ >> incubation mailing list >> [email protected] >> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or >> unsubscribe from this list, visit >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> incubation mailing list >> [email protected] >> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >> from this list, visit >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation >> > > _______________________________________________ > incubation mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/incubation >
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