Yes, it lists on your user profile the posts you follow, answer, ... and should sort them by latest interaction. However, you are right, it does not help to see new posts.
Also looking at forum statistics would be interesting, I guess that we should check if the community has migrated to other places like Stackoverflow. __________________________ Antoine THOMAS aka ttoine Product Manager Eclipse Foundation [email protected] +33663137906 @ttoine On 22 February 2017 at 10:58, Ed Merks <[email protected]> wrote: > Antoine, > > If I understand this correctly, this list's all ~28,000 posts that I've > answered since 2002. This does not help me monitor forums with new > questions. > > For that, in Thunderbird, I use feeds, e.g., > > https://www.eclipse.org/forums/feed.php?mode=m&l=1&; > basic=1&frm=108&n=200&format=rss > > So it still feels more like emails that arrive. But of course I cannot > reply, I must follow the link to the forum web page and compose mail using > the not-so-lovely forum software (that you must monitor very carefully to > ensure that your post is really accepted, which can and does take as long > as 30 seconds). And it's not so easy to figure out how to set this up! > > Please note that a fundamental complaint here is that user questions have > dropped dramatically. I wonder also if the flow of answers has also > dropped. I'd be happy to see statistics that contradict this assertion. > In fact, I'd be happy to see statistics. > > > On 22.02.2017 10:36, Antoine THOMAS wrote: > > 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 <+33%206%2063%2013%2079%2006> > @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. 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