Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-12-05 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
Thanks for the information. From a user's perspective, I think all of these different systems are a bit too fragmented and seem cluttered. Since there are single systems that can handle all of these functions, it would be much better for Sofa's users to have such a single system to relate to

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-30 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
For support tickets, feature requests, etc., Get Satisfaction and UserVoice are great (the best?) alternatives: http://getsatisfaction.com/ http://uservoice.com/ Another alternative that works more like a forum, but still has some of the voting features and such as the two above and that

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-30 Thread Dirk Stoop
Hi Asbjørn, Thanks for your suggestions. One thing I want to reiterate is that we're not looking for a bug tracker or a customer support system, we're pretty happy with the way we have both set up. We are just looking for something that can host a decent mailing list, preferrably with an online

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-30 Thread Asbjørn Ulsberg
Okay. What is your current setup wrt bug tracking, tickets, feature requests, voting, etc.? -Asbjørn On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:16:59 +0100, Dirk Stoop d...@madebysofa.com wrote: Hi Asbjørn, Thanks for your suggestions. One thing I want to reiterate is that we're not looking for a bug

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-30 Thread Dirk Stoop
Sure, I can tell a little bit about that: We use Trac for internal tickets, and a gmail account for support and customer service. The gmail account for support may sound silly, but we actually use Tender (tenderapp.com) on another project (and have experimented with other systems) and have found

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-29 Thread Lane Roathe
I second the recommendation for Redmine. -lane On Nov 28, 10:37 am, Marijn marijn.huizendv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dirk, Email support in Redmine is really easy to configure. You can just use a google account as SMTP server to send those emails. Kindest regards, Marijn -- You received

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-28 Thread Marijn
Hi Dirk, Email support in Redmine is really easy to configure. You can just use a google account as SMTP server to send those emails. Kindest regards, Marijn On Nov 23, 3:44 pm, Dirk Stoop d...@madebysofa.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I also heard mixed things about Yahoo

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-23 Thread Dirk Stoop
Thanks for the suggestions everyone, I also heard mixed things about Yahoo groups elsewhere and think we can safely eliminate that option. (If I understand correctly, you even need a yahoo ID to be able to log in to them, which is kind of a dealbreaker). The biggest problem with something like

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-14 Thread Arnold
I haven't evaluated any of these except for 37Signals Writeboard via Basecamp, but I think these might possibly satisfy your requirements: Spicebird - http://www.spicebird.com/ (Windows/Linux self-hosted) Writeboard - http://writeboard.com/ Wridea - http://wridea.com/ On Nov 12, 5:43 am, Dirk

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-12 Thread tazz_ben
We use the vanilla forums for our more power-user support area. It has pretty good spam filtering by using recaptia. My only issue with it is it is still a bit of a moving target, and every time I spend the time to theme it match our site it gets broke in the next version. On Nov 12, 5:43 am,

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Lewis
Not really an expert on these things, but what about Yahoo? Used it a few years ago and it seemed pretty good. On Nov 12, 5:43 am, Dirk Stoop d...@madebysofa.com wrote: Hi All, Because Google Groups is slowly dropping features – and it wasn't that great to begin with – we'd like to eventually

Re: Google Groups Alternatives?

2010-11-12 Thread Rob Rye
I have a fair bit of experience moderating groups on Yahoo! Groups (I inherited all these groups from other moderators and am stuck with them as the communities that use them are unwilling to contemplate migrating to anything better). I find the spam recognition features capricious. The file