I agree. See, for example, the extremely successful Gentoo forums at forums.gentoo.org.
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:24 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Indeed, it would be like users@, but consider: > > 1) In what way can you order threads in a mailing list? If we had a > web-based forum we could easilly have stuff related to hardware in one > forum, multimedia in another, pkgsrc in another etc., we could even have a > forum for non df-related stuff. Sure, you can make more mailing lists, > but: > 2) Assume that DF is going to gain much bigger popularity, im not talking > about hundreds of users like now, im talking about thousands. Can you > imagine users@ with 10x (or even more) people posting one over another all > different stuff? Thats confusion! You arent going to attract people to DF > with a mailing list like that. > 3) When users want to ask questions to another users, whats easier than > sign up, log in and make a new thread and discuss whatever you wish. > Sorry, but a mailing list might have been a hype of 15 years ago when > people had a 14.4kbps dialup connection to the internet or even less, but > today? Sure its easy to open up evolution or mutt and send mails to > users@, but is this attractive to new users coming over over from Linux > and *BSD? The guy that wrote the review of DF 1.4 on Distrowatch was > correct when he said that DF is for hardcore geeks, because only geeks > like us would bother mailing questions to users@ today in 2006 when pretty > much every project that is trying to make it somewhere far has a proper > forum that suits the age (and for a reason!) > > Dont take this as bashing please, i really _like_ what you guys are doing > in the software section. Im just trying to help out. > > petr > > -- Jake Maciejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
