Erwan David wrote:
Also note that the people "voting" on this topic are self-selected to be pro-mailing list since the pro-forum folks have given up OR are using a different product.
Same, some people won't go to a web forum because it does not fit them.
Some people won't download software from websites... Some people won't use cellphones... Anyone who uses TextMate is probably using a web browser to download software.
If I didn't like TextMate enough, I'd have been turned off by its lack of a forum because, in my experience, developers who don't provide forums tend to be less responsive to their users and have less inclusive user communities.
(I personnaly find web forums very hard to read, because discussions are presented as a list and nobody knws to whicvh message an anser responds).
Within a thread, this can be a problem. Of course in this mailing list I end up writing twenty replies to different variants of the same point because they're in trivially different subtrees.