On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Daniel Trstenjak <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Funny how different generations of internet users have differnet affinities. > > Perhaps some people just prefer forums because they don't know about > email filters and don't have an email reader with threading support.
Ehm, Thunderbird is both free and has decent threading. GMail works quite well too. On the other hand, a lot of people have never used a mailing list before, many younger people haven't even seen a classic e-mail (or usenet!) client at all - e-mail today being synonymous with things like GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other "stuff that grandma uses" - "normal" people write a message on the Facebook wall instead. So doing things like having to use a crummy web interface trying to emulate a somewhat passable text editor to post a message somewhere that is trying the darnedest to chase the usability of an Usenet reader from 20 years ago (and still frequently fails at it) is normal for them, because that is how everyone does it everywhere. E.g. I haven't seen a gaming community use anything else but a forum for their communication. The Cyanogen project (custom Android ROM for mobile phones) is even releasing their software by posting into a forum - that makes it wonderfully easy to find bugs for the current release from the page 1 at the end of a 1000+ pages long thread accumulated over months and years ... One thing that doesn't help with the mailing lists is that generally the archives and searching of them is often terrible. There are exceptions like GMane, but few people know about them and use them. If the forum users don't step up to help run the forum, I would suggest to bite the bullet and shut it down. Granted, that isn't going to be popular, but I think few people can be expected to sit on the forum all day long to deal with the issues when we have jobs to do ... Best regards, Jan _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
