Woah, but did anyone look at the fact that, compared to a forum, immensely few people will join a mailing list unless they're VERY interested in it?
I don't think we manage a post a day on average over a month for this mailing list, true. But by comparison, a forum would be much more...newbie-friendly, so to speak. I can't speak for any others, but I had to force myself to join the mailing list, because no forum was available. This is sufficient, sure. Along the lines of suggestions, I think if we make a forum, it shouldn't be the grand central station every library tries to make theirs become. My opinion is that we should have a maximum of 3 sub-forums. One for announcements, one for developmental chatter (suggestions, ideas, preferably no issues since we have a bug tracker, and possibly dev chat for upcoming changes), one for posting projects made in pyglet. >From active members on here, we should have a few volunteers for administrators, which will handle announcements, and any other problem that might show up. This should allow us to appear more than the stagnant image we have right now. The main site hasn't been updated for over a year. Much over a year. Who is even hosting or maintaining it? After giving it more thought, it seems to me like the whole site could use some updating, along with people to actually take this project places. Because I haven't seen any real progress at all in two years. And it's not as if there aren't things we can still do with it. Then again, it does mean a huge coordinated effort. On 15 August 2011 19:24, Tristam MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That would all be so amazing. because some users of Pyglet may go to >> pyglet.org and look for a forum to see examples and a community of >> submitted games, personally a forum on pyglet.org would be amazing, >> but really anything would be good :D >> > > We discussed the idea of a forum a while back (probably buried deep in the > list archives by now). The prevailing opinion at the time was that a forum > didn't really offer any advantages over this mailing list, and the mailing > list traffic was low enough that splitting it further might prove > disastrous. > > I am not suggesting it shouldn't be considered now or in the future, but it > is worth keeping in mind that mailing list traffic is now even *lower* than > at that point. > > I think however, that having a portfolio of completed pyglet-based projects > on the website is a very good idea. Might help drive interest in learning > pyglet, and/or help motivate whoever is still actively developing piglet > itself. > > -- > Tristam MacDonald > System Administrator, Suffolk University Math & CS Department > http://swiftcoder.wordpwordpressress.com/<http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pyglet-users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
