Here are my counter arguments: -1) you have to go to the web-page to read the forum posts -2) replying needs a web-connection and a functioning web-browser, this means that slowly written drafts have to be written somewhere else -3) it is much easier and more flexible to re-adjust the layout of a mail being written than a forum post
Here is my -1. paul Le 7 mars 2011 à 23:13, Andreas Hahn a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to make the proposal to drop the existing mailing lists in > favor of a forum (bulletin board) software. > > The objective is to promote the XWiki community discussions to a broader > audience. > > 1) A forum serves like an advertising window as anyone can read the > contributions without subscription. > 2) Anyone can judge the activity by reading the view count. > 3) New users can get in touch with the community without being urged to > subscribe to a mailing list. > 4) Many people consider mailing lists as spam and prefer not to subscribe > 5) Contributions have a longer visibility and older entries will get > responses > 6) Communication gets more efficient as the same topics won't get > repeatedly discussed > 7) To my experience forums get much better indexed by google as mail > collectors like Nabble , Markmail, e.t.c. > 8) Forums encourage user to user discussions and you will see new users > taking an active role > 9) There should be at least one additional category IMHO: administrators > 10) A forum is more pleasure to read once a topic split into many threads > 11) A forum is beneficial when expecting increasing support requirements > - some real large scale forums were run by just a few moderators > 12) More people will see what a teriffic job the XWiki team does. > > Here's my +1 > > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
