Ken (and Robert), Ken Springer wrote: > > If you think finding Nabble and other help in the Libre Office site is > hard, try Mozilla!! Horrendous!l Great eye candy, but not particularly > functional for finding help. > True indeed. That's why http://forums.mozillazine.org Mozillazine , a volunteer effort, sprung up and is thriving with millions of posts and hundreds of thousands of users.
Total posts 4176354 • Total topics 790627 • Total members 374066 If Libre Office goes to a forum format, I'm outta here. Forums are > resource hungry and slow. Big forums require dedicated servers, that is true. For people browsing there, they are fast and simple to use. To me, forums assume the user is to stupid or ignorant to master newsgroups. With respect, Ken, that statement to me indicates an insular mindset. You may be a "geek" (not intended as an insult) and go back to the early days of Usenet, but the majority of people on the Internet are not. It is not very productive to label them as stupid or ignorant if forums are what they prefer. http://ubuntuforums.org/ Ubuntu and http://forums.linuxmint.com/ Linux Mint , to give two more examples, have embraced forums and met with an enthusiastic response. My recommendation would be for The Document Foundation and LibreOffice to approach the http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ OOo volunteer forum to discuss collaboration. It is popular, well maintained, the moderators and volunteers are for the most part helpful and knowledgeable, and there is no need in my opinion to re-invent the wheel. (Of course, such steps may already be going on behind the scenes that we don't yet know about.) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/I-am-downloading-LibreOffice-to-try-it-out-tp2790818p2801420.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
