On Wed, 5 Jun 2019, Thomas Adam wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 07:46:02PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
Sorry, no inclination to follow a forum. Wish we'd go back to
exclusively email.
I personally don't disagree -- but you know what the old maxim says: "Give
the people what they want". It seems the y00fh of today prefer forums. God
knows why, but they do.
Think that an usenet (nntp) newsgroup would give both the benefits of
e-mail and forums (in terms of asynchronous access, and of each user
choosing the interface one prefers ... which could mimic e-mail in full).
I follow/ed several usenet newsgroup (usually once per day, looking only
at new posts), several mailing lists (usually in MIME digest mode, one
digest per day ... the fvwm list is the only one not offering digest mode)
and three forums only, all phpBB (one thing I hate of forums is that each
has its own interface ... "you are lost in a twisting maze of little
forums all different").
We could shunt the wiki over to Github as well
I'd never found Github good for "support" in the way mailing lists and
forums do (at least for the packages for which I had to go to Github). It
is a repository, or perhaps a collaborative tool for developers, but I
found no satisfactory interactivity for questions users may address to
developers.
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