[TxMt] Re: Actual Forum?

[Thomas Aylott]

I think that's pretty similar to how Nabble works.
Do you think the UI of ruby-forum is better then Nabble2?

I like the idea of getting the best of both worlds.

Over at MooTools we just closed down the Forum that we've had for  
years and moved over to Google Groups.
The transition has been a bit rocky since so many people are so used  
to the Forums. But I personally thing Google Groups is a good  
compromise between the two.

The Quicksilver.app forum was recently replaced by a Google Group too.

The one major advantage I've seen with the Mailing Lists vs. Forums is  
that the signal to noise ratio is usually much better. As much as I  
hate to stereotype... n00bs usually don't use Mailing Lists and non- 
n00bs usually hate Forums.

I guess it's up to Allan if he wants to create a Forum, none of us  
really have any say in it, except to make our own Unofficial Forum.  
But, since Allan certainly falls into that ladder category, I don't  
think there's likely to be much hope of it.
Sorry.

—Thomas Aylott / subtleGradient

On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Sven Fuchs wrote:

> To add another bikeshed color to the discussion, there's RForum which
> powers http://www.ruby-forum.com - there are some pretty high-traffic
> mailinglists centralized and it works very well.
>
> You set it up and have it subscribe to any mailinglist (i.e. no need
> to move to Google groups). It will then act transparently as a gateway
> to the mailinglist.
>
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