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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
