On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:28 AM Norby Droid via Freedos-user
wrote:
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> Would there be any interest in a web forum for FreeDos?
This question comes up from time to time, and the consensus has always
been a clear "No." Email lists work very well for discussion,
especially for developers, and email is an open standard that works
for everyone.
Migrating to a web forum also adds questions like "what platform will
everyone want to use?" (several to choose from) and "who will maintain
the web forum" (upgrades) "is the web forum accessible for everyone?"
(if some users cannot use it because it's poorly designed for
accessibility, then it's useless for communication). There's also an
additional issue of user login data (such as GDPR) and clearing data
upon request (required by other laws) that we don't have to worry
about since we are using the email list service provided by
SourceForge (for almost all of the "data" issues, SF deals with that
as the service provider or host).
So as long as SF provides the email list service, I think we'll keep
using those. Especially for developer discussion.
But I get it that some folks prefer a web forum to ask user questions.
As Eric pointed out, BTTR's forum is there (although BTTR's forum is
for *any* DOS topics, not just FreeDOS - and sometimes the topics
there wander quite far from "DOS"). The FreeDOS group on Facebook also
has good "user" discussions - this is another venue to ask "how do I
do __ on FreeDOS?" questions.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/freedosproject/
*As an aside: we aren't the only open source project that "still" uses
email lists for developer communication. For example, LKML is where
Linux developers discuss Linux kernel development topics.
Jim
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