Hi,
Graham Stewart wrote:
I'm of the opinion that if you want to build a strong community then it
helps to gather everyone in the same place.
The segmentation is actually desirable; it is correct that the same
thing is discussed in several different groups but that's just the same
as with pub meetups.
If you don't like email and don't like the existing forum, then set up a
forum that you like and use that. There's more than enough users to fill
all of these media and we can't all be in the same place anyway. Please
just don't expect me to use a forum to communicate. Forums have all
these things like
polls, sticky threads, consistent
formatting, image posting, moderators, spellcheckers, swear filters.
that I dislike.
Most forums provide email notifications if that's what you really prefer.
Or it could provide an RSS feed - either for the entire forum or just
for threads you are watching.
I have a RSS feed for our current forum and it does not seem to work
very well. It only occasionally grabs new messages and cannot handle
threading properly - unless of course I subscribe to individual threads
but who would do such a thing. And when I want to send a reply, I have
to log in to a web page first.
Sorry Tom, but you've clearly used some awful forums.
A good organised forum should be faster and easier than trawling through
email.
I think the comparison is skewed for you because you use a slightly
low-end webmailer. So *you* have to fire up a browser anyway, whereas I
don't use a browser to read my email, and don't want to use a browser to
read a forum either. My mail program even does cursor keys so I can have
both hands on the keyboard.
Anyway, let's not get carried away. My original comment was just a throw
away aside.
Yes, but one suitable to insult people who actually prefer mailing lists.
Bye
Frederik
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