Am Sonntag, 13. Januar 2013, 01:35:23 schrieb Yawar Amin: > John, > > On 2013-01-12, at 18:16, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > That's not really a simplification. Worse, I think that if you call it > > that then people will think that they're web forums, and we have enough > > trouble with nabble users who don't understand that they're using a web > > interface to a mailing list. > How about 'email discussion forums'? > > And also, wouldn't they realise that it's all email-based immediately on > hitting the wiki page? I can definitely tweak the wiki page a bit to make > that obvious to non-techies.
I didn't realize so far that "mailing list" is such an unknown term among the non-tech users, but maybe you're right. Maybe for the non-tech audience, using the word "forum" (maybe indeed as "email discussion forum") leads to a more suitable expectation with respect to what they will actually see. The explanation on the wiki page can certainly help here. Feel free to make this more clear. > > How about a section on the main web page between "Feature Highlights" > > and "News" titled "Need Help?" that emphasizes reading the Concept > > Guide and suggests our large, friendly community on the user's mailing > > list and mentions that it's available on the web via nabble? > Definitely. 'Need help?' is clear and obvious. I'll see what I can do on > that. Yes. Regards, Christian _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
