IMHO we need a typo forum Freedom Dumlao wrote:
>The mailing list may be *easy* to sign up for, but it is a pain in >the neck to find information on. If you want the answer to one >question, you must *subscribe* to the mailing list. You may decide to >do a google search for your answer, but I will tell you that every >question I have researched this way has returned results for several >different rails apps, and not just typo specifically. It's >frustrating. And when the question is one you are SURE has been asked >before, a person is not likely to feel that the question is welcome >on the mailing list. > >Another disadvantage to the mailing list is that I have to receive >EVERY thread, regardless of weather or not I give a crap about it. >Yes, all of my typo list stuff is filtered to its own box, but still, >watching one thread is not convenient. > >As far as the gmane thing, its nice to have them suck up the info, >but the fact is the info is re-displayed in a flat out ugly way. For >a piece of software that is so beautiful to use, it sure is ugly >trying to get support for it. There is just no elegance in a mailing >list/NNTP/gmane support system, backed up by Trac, which while a good >ticked and development tracking system, is certainly not the ideal >solution for a primary website for something like typo. > >I don't really know what Typo's plans are as far as what it wants to >become. With the recent theme promotion and contest, it really seemed >like typo was trying to reach out to the masses and say, look at me! >But many people will be discouraged by the current support system, >especially if they are used to the much more popular support system, >the forum. > >If Typo wants to become the popular blogging system it deserves to >be, it is going to need a more available format. NNTP is nice, but >still requires news software to access. I can't get to it from the >office at my day job, or from an international internet cafe. > >My point is this: a forum is plain EASY to use and everyone is >familiar with the concepts. Patching together multiple various >technologies and relying GOOGLE to be the lists search engine (which >of course wont index every day) is not strong enough to escalate Typo >to the usership of other popular systems. Unless the idea is to keep >out everyone except those who are already rails initiates, I cannot >think of a good reason not to use a forum. > > >On Dec 3, 2005, at 5:57 PM, Justus Pendleton wrote: > > > >>Freedom Dumlao wrote: >> >> >>>Why don't we have any typo forums? >>> >>> >>Gmane has a mailing list gateway that presents the list via NNTP >>and two >>different web interfaces. You can see it here: >> >>http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.typo.user >> >>If the list admins for this group don't mind I'll send email to the >>gmane people today or tomorrow and have them import the typo list >>archives into gmane. >> >> >> >>>I think a forum might be easier to access than the mailing list >>> >>> >>I think that might be part of why there isn't a forum ;-) Is figuring >>out how to subscribe to a mailing list really that big of a hurdle for >>someone who wants to run a commercially unsupported blog system that >>depends on a web framework that hasn't had its official 1.0 release >>yet >>and is written in a language that a lot of hosting providers don't >>support? >> >> >> >>>would be much easier to search through and access for new users? >>> >>> >>You can search the mailing list pretty easily with google right now. >>Try "site:http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/typo-list/ truncate table >>users", for instance. Of course that could be made easier by adding a >>simple form to the typo website. If gmane imports the archives >>then you >>can search them from there, as well. >> >>-- >>Justus >>_______________________________________________ >>Typo-list mailing list >>Typo-list at rubyforge.org >>http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Typo-list mailing list >Typo-list at rubyforge.org >http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > >
