Hi
I am glad you mentioned this. I very much prefer good forums to mailing lists.
I think the phpbb forum is very good and easy to set up with a MySQL database. The disadvantage with it is no RSS :(
My own feeling is that forums reach a very much larger audience than mailing lists.
It's just a hunch, but I feel a great many people don't want to "sign up" to a mailing list because they don't want endless emails coming in :)
I also think that for some people they like to just know there is a forum even if they don't ever use it. The reason for this is that they like to know that if they have a problem with the program, then at least there is a forum that they can pop along to and just ask a question. They don't have to subscribe to mailing list etc. So, it is good methinks to have a forum at the software web-site.
I think the problem with posing the question "actual forum?" here is that the group of people here using this list are the kind of people who like discussion lists, that's why they are here :) - so they are less likely to be favourable towards a forum.
A good point made by someone is, "well why don't you set up a forum then?", however the problem with a forum or email list is moderating it and personally I am not sufficiently interested in doing that.
I do moderate one forum for a different subject and a mailing list for a further subject, so on the "moderating" front I'm not doing too badly :)
However I feel that the TextMate people (or person) might like to consider a forum.
Just my two cents (although in UK where I'm from we don't use cents).
Patrick
On 28 Jul 2008, at 23:16, podperson wrote:
I know there are people who (for some reason) prefer mailing lists to actual forums, but I'd like to cast my vote for a proper forum.
Nabble works surprisingly well, but it's still pretty painful compared to any forum I've used. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Actual-Forum--tp18700957p18700957.html Sent from the textmate users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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