Just been on QL Forum (www.qlforum.co.uk) and am impressed with the
number
of postings in January. Pete and Rob have done quite a good job
with this -
well done guys.
Dilwyn Jones
Thanks Dilwyn! :)
We hope the site will continue to grow and grow!
Rob.
When I first heard about the QL Forum I was afraid it might fail
because unlike the QL Users mailing list you can't just sit back and
wait for the messages to land in your inbox! You have to actively log
in and read.
Actually, that wasn't quite right because it supports RSS - I usually
just go to qlforum.co.uk and click FEEDS in my browser (can't remember
what it's called in Firefox) . That way I get a feed (a fairly long
listing of the text of the posts) which I can quickly read and if I
want to post a reply I can login to do so. And the FEEDS can give you
either all postings or just the new ones since you last visited.
When I was on earlier today I noticed the list of people on included
some bots. Looks like the Forum is actively letting the search engines
find it and process the postings. If I'm right on this, it means that
the search engines will respond to people searching for things
relating to QL which happen to have been discussed, which is good
because more and more people use forums and the information will be
out there for people to find and hopefully more and more will find the
QL still exists and hopefully either become new or returnign visitors
as we have seen a few examples of here in the last year.
What we need now is more and more ideas like this on how to reach out
to people to attract them to, or back to, the QL.
I've noticed that the little QL-specific search engine on my home page
gets a fair bit of use, so there are people out there looking for
information.
Dilwyn Jones
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