On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Luke Daley wrote:
> Unfortunately you can't post via email, but you can receive notifications of
> content.
>
> You can configure your notifications here:
> http://forums.gradle.org/me/notifications
>
> It strikes me know that this page's existence is not very obvious so I'll put
> something on the front page.
>
The problem with all online forums without mailing list integration is an issue
of discovery.
For example, let's say user A asks about feature Y. As user B, I happen to know
the answer and have useful things to say. With the new system, I would never
see the issue unless I specifically go to the forums and look for it.
The email notification functionality is nowhere near as useful, as it would
only notify me on threads that I have explicitly participated in or chose to
watch. Unless there's a way to say 'send me all posts regardless of me
registering interest'? I guess RSS is another option for that.
In my experience forums attract more newbieish users (a good thing), but also
end up with a lot less of a community, with responders dwindling to the
'official' or invested participants (employees, people running a support
company, or trying to grow the business etc).
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