Hi Emil, On 14 Feb., 10:33, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > The askbot enginge is successfully used by a number of sites. Now that > it is established it is unrealistic to shut it down again,and it is > unthinkable to move things over from sage-support.
I didn't suggest to shut AskSage down. It seems to me that it is actually easier to customize than sage-support. You can sort the threads by the number of answers (so, can easily see if something has not been answered, yet), by tags (so, can sort by your interests), etc. That's nice. I like the tags, and I like the formatting. The fact that comments technically do not count as answers but practically *are* answers (in the sense that they provide information and ask for more information and are thus part of communication) is so far the only thing that I found irritating. > Simon, you raised the problem of unanswered questions. Also in the > google groups similar can happen. If there is increased traffic, posts > drop of the main page pretty quick. Sure. But I do think it would be nice if the existence of comments to a thread could be made visible on the AskSage front page, even to a user who is not logged in. > Regarding new users. Maybe there could be a friendly welcome message > somewhere (in the faq?), with a reminder that this site is operated by > a helpful, but nonetheless volunteer community. And that sometimes > patience and persistence is necessary to get the right information. I don't know if such message is necessary *if* the users see that the community is responsive - i.e., if they see the community's activity, not only part of the activity. > Should there also be a link to the other support list - it might be a > matter of personal preference which one to use? Is it intended that AskSage will eventually replace sage-support? If not, then it would really be good to know in what situation I should AskSage and in what situation I should support-sage... > As always,more questions > than answers :-), ... At least, on sage-devel, your questions count as an answer, not as a comment... Cheers, Simon -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
