On 12/09/2011, at 5:16 PM, Hani Suleiman wrote:

> 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.

Yes there is an option to be notified of all new “topics” @ 
http://forums.gradle.org/me/notifications

> 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).

That's something we'll have to watch then.

-- 
Luke Daley
Principal Engineer, Gradleware 
http://gradleware.com


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