We are lucky that Millennia keep this list functioning given the ratio
of LUG to Facebook LUG users.
As a Beta tester, and former Millennia employee I know that they use
Mailman mailing lists for support to the Beta testers, translation teams
and for other purposes so keeping this list for those who want to stay
on this mailing list is not a great "extra" burden. I know for me
answering questions on this list is only a small part of my day. The
traffic on the Beta test list far outnumbers this list and most of my
replies are directed there.
Creating a forum for LUG would add an extra support burden to manage it
as Peter Matthews wrote. I do not see Millennia creating a forum and
accepting that extra workload.
Brian Kelly
On 10-Jan.-19 10:01 p.m., Peter Matthews wrote:
I'm not sure we actually <need> a forum at all.
Both mailing lists like this and forums have their advantages and
disadvantages. OK, so our mailing list can't show images, but it has
nevertheless been working very successfully, and simply, for many years,
as have many other "Mailman" mailing lists in use today.
As someone who has administered several forums a few years ago, and
Mailman mailing lists today, I know that forums are a lot trickier and
more work to administer. What would be in it for Millennia? Only more
work setting it up, administering it, and coping with the many extra
complaints which would surely arise. Yes, a forum or forums would
provide extra capabilities, but would it be worth it? I can feel a
saying coming on, but I'll resist.
Unless this mailing list actually becomes not fit for purpose, I feel we
should stick with it, just get on with it, and thank Legacy/Millennia
for hosting it. It has certainly helped solve a lot of our Legacy
problems and queries.
Peter
At 22:41 09-01-19 +0000, Chris Hill wrote:
What Legacy and Millennia should be building is a single forum styled
system - HTML web based system to replace the current systems of a
1990s style email mail list and a group within Facebook which cannot
easily deal with linked posts.
This is the way that virtually all other systems use; look at forums
used by game developers, vehicle owner groups etc. There is freely
available software to provide these systems, which can be developed to
provide more functionality.
These systems enable you to create multiple sub-forums within which
your users can create posts, to include text and embedded files and
images. Against those posts other users can create additional posts.
Management of users is easy to ensure that only registered users can
make or read posts; that some sub-forums or posts can be read-only to
anyone; some can be limited to developers and testers etc..
And the existing mail and FB lists can be merged into the new system.
Chris
(From my Android)
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