On 7/25/2014, 11:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
To download for offline reading see Jacque's helpful tip on setting up email subscription for the entire forum: <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202871.html>
It's a stopgap solution that I use daily, but even so it doesn't provide the same easy interaction that this list does. I don't have much time, and even with the digest I still need to load the forums in a browser and do all the clicking and page-loading and all the rest of it before I can post. So I don't visit very often, and I only scan the digest quickly to see if there is anything I feel is compelling enough to take time to mess with a web browser.
Since the digest arrives only once a day, much of the content is old by the time I see it. I have often clicked through to the forum with a reply in mind, only to find that since the digest was compiled, it has already been answered. Email is immediate and if I have a response, I can send it in a few seconds and go back to my work. If someone else has already replied, I already know that. There is no loading, no clicking, no typing into a tiny text area (very difficult on a mobile device,) and no waiting for the reply to be accepted to see whether I need to send it twice because someone else has already answered while I was typing.
Reading conversations via a web browser is slow and tedious, which is fine for those who have time to leisurely browse content. I would be more apt to use the forum if posts would arrive one at a time, immediately, and if I could reply via email so I didn't have to deal with a web browser (in other words, if I could use it the way I use this list.) As it is, I participate infrequently, and I suspect the commercial developers here do the same because time is so limited.
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