On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So, if the forums provide a usable rss feed, reading
>>> them shouldn't be that bad, even though you have to follow the links
>>> to read longer messages and reply.
>>
>> If the forums have useful RSS feeds, yeah, that would work. I use Kontact;
>> the default feed reader for Kontact is Akregator, which works reasonably
>> well as long as the RSS feed is reasonable (that is, you can get all useful
>> content without having to go to the forum website; if the forum RSS feed
>> requires me to go to the website for essential things like subjects and
>> thread starters, then it's unreasonable).
>>
>> Otherwise I find web forums require a complete change in workflow; that is,
>> I have to go look at the website and navigate around, with different
>> interfaces, logins, and paradigms. I like e-mail when done right
>> (folderized, threaded, etc). When done wrong it's useless, too, for that
>> matter.
>
> Not so sure about usability - it looks like the rss is all-or-nothing
> and I have no interest at all in CentOS4. I'll see how it shows up in
> google reader. The QA forum works fine that way to pick up the
> occasional announcement, though.
The first look isn't promising - there is only a small amount of text
displayed and clicking through to get the rest doesn't recognize
mobile browsers so you always have to zoom in for a reasonable font
size when using the phone app. And a large percent of the admittedly
small sample looks more like spam or off-topic than what we see here.
Is anyone interested in seeing things like:
"Atlantica online OG Realms Private Server"
or
"Does CentOS join Micorsoft strategy?"
Clicking on the first one of those gave me a 'you do not have
permission to access this forum' error, which might mean someone
removed it after the rss entry was picked up, but still not a great
user experience.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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