The mailing lists predate the forum by many years. Some people who used the mailing list complained they preferred a forum, so RunRev obliged and provided the forum. It's not that one discussion mechanism is officially sanctioned by RunRev, although I suspect new users find the forum before the find the mailing list (and I suspect that announcements from the MotherShip might be more notable in the mailing list channel than in the forum).
Those of us for whom the mailing list was the way we discussed these things for years have continued to use the mailing list. Some people are quite disciplined in going off to the forum to help out in discussions there. Some of us (such as me) just have a look at the forum every few weeks or months. I have a load of different technologies to keep on top of, and just don't feel I have the time to visit the forum on a regular basis. Some of the old-hands (and some of the new-hands) here are super-human. Like others, I keep my email from RunRev in gmail, and have my own search mechanism at hand. I also use the 'draft' folder on gmail to hold RunRev related notes of my own, so that when searching for something I don't just find the past discussions of others, but also have my own notes turn up in the results. The forum is not actually (IMO) easier to read or search than using the mailing list via gmail. Bernard On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Richard MacLemale <rich...@richardmac.com> wrote: > Here's my serious question. Why do so many people "in the know" use the list > instead of the official RunRev LiveCode forums? Forums have so many > advantages over mailing lists - they're easier to read, they're easier to > search, you can access them from anywhere, I could keep going. I'm just > curious as to why the best LiveCoders spend more time here than in the > forums? There are people who participate in both - I see Jacque and Klaus in > there all the time and I probably owe Klaus a case of beer at this point... > > Anyway, just curious? > > --- > Richard MacLemale > Music = http://www.richardmac.com > Programming = http://www.macandchee.se > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
