And doesn't "The Community" sound strangely similar to "The Area" ?!

This smells all to familiar, Company A doesn't want to deal w/ the overhead of 
a more personalized service (ie. private mailing list for smaller tight group), 
and so it consolidates like Company B has done and gains tremendous orders of 
efficiency (ie. Autodesk model)... And in the end the individual user loses 
"personal touch" which made the company what it is !


FYI, The Nuke user list is by far the most functional user-based effort I've 
seen in my 25yrs in the industry... If it ain't broke, don't fix it !

+1

Ari
Blue Sky



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> On Feb 3, 2015, at 1:05 PM, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes after all isn’t that how it is working at the moment? Replies go to the 
> forum but we use email?
> I think the foundry should have asked opinion first on this. Hope that’s not 
> a sign of things to come.
> 
>> On 3 Feb 2015, at 17:58, Rich Bobo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I know I already added my +1 earlier in this thread. However, I just wanted 
>> to bolster the argument for continuing to have email as an option for the 
>> discussion groups. I *rarely* visit any of the web-based forums for any 
>> software company -- for all of the reasons voiced by others on this list. I 
>> was a Flame user for many years before making Nuke my comp tool of choice. 
>> Autodesk attempted to eliminate their flame-news emailings and switch 
>> everyone over to their forums. There was also a hue and cry from the artists 
>> on those lists! In the end, they kept both. You could post to the forums via 
>> email and receive single or digest emails. I don’t know if it is still that 
>> way, but it is a best-of-both-worlds solution, IMO. It is *so* much more 
>> convenient to filter and reply-at-will to posts that I feel I might be able 
>> to contribute to. Some postings I read right away and some I save for later 
>> reference. Searching my own mailboxes is a piece of cake. *PLEASE* make it 
>> possible to continue receiving emails!  (Please?)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Rich
>> 
>> 
>> Rich Bobo
>> Senior VFX Compositor
>> Armstrong White
>> Email:  [email protected]
>> http://armstrong-white.com/
>> 
>> Email:  [email protected]
>> Mobile:  (248) 840-2665
>> Web:  http://richbobo.com/
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 3, 2015, at 12:44 PM, Randy Little <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Nathan the amount of noise from a forum emailed to you is INSANE.  Think 
>>> about how many people on the mail list complain about anything off topic 
>>> being noise now.   If I was getting forum emails it would just go off the 
>>> charts.   Digest Oye,  read through a zillion topics again.   
>>> Email.  goes in thread One email subject and all email go into that thread 
>>> and I never see another email accept the original.  Forum would be a new 
>>> non threaded email for every forum post. At least thats has been my 
>>> experience with other forums.   
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Randy S. Little
>>> http://reel.rslittle.com
>>> http://imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> I would love to keep the mailing lists alive as well, although I'm not 
>>>> vehemently against forums.
>>>>  
>>>> However, I think it's worth noting that the interchange between the lists 
>>>> and the old forums is (I believe) nonexistent at this point. There are a 
>>>> ton of topics on the forums that most people here aren't aware of, and 
>>>> none of what is posted here ends up on the forums. In other words, there's 
>>>> effectively a small, detached community of people on the list side, and a 
>>>> (probably much larger) separate community on the forums who either don't 
>>>> know the lists exist, or don't care enough to figure out how to use them. 
>>>> Granted, this keeps the signal-to-noise ratio of the lists at a very nice 
>>>> level...
>>>>  
>>>> For those of you planning to jump ship, while I'm not on the new forums 
>>>> yet myself, I think it should be possible to set up your forum account so 
>>>> you receive an email whenever a new topic is posted, or a daily topic 
>>>> digest if you preferred. This would make it behave somewhat more like a 
>>>> mailing list, except  you would need to click a link instead of "reply" to 
>>>> respond. Food for thought, maybe.
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> -Nathan
>>>> 
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