What about using subreddits for official comms and support?  There's
already /r/lmms, and there could be /r/lmmssupport and any number of other
subreddits.  Forums and emails can make it really hard to follow a
conversation, and subreddits do a better job at that.


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote:

> If we want an LMMS forum, I don't think it should be a new one. I think
> the existing SF forum should be migrated to a new place. The SF forum is
> still active, there's not much activity but there is some - there are
> new posts every day, there are even new users almost every day, asking
> for advice on things.
>
> I think it's mostly slow there because it's... slow. The SF forum is
> horribly slow, it takes ages to load pages. That's probably part of the
> reason why it sees little use. But there is use, there are some forum
> regulars posting new tracks, new resources, plugins - the Bitrot LADSPA
> plugins for one thing, those are even something I think would be great
> to include in LMMS - but the forum is slow and using it is not pleasant,
> so it's no wonder the activity is minimal.
>
> If we start a new forum from scratch, it's just going to split the
> userbase again - a small community doesn't need to be divided to dozens
> of tiny islands. So I think the best action to take, forum-wise, would
> be to migrate the SF forum to a new, better platform.
>
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