On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 05:02:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17 Jun 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > mandrakeclub (or do a telephone poll for registered users, but that will > > > be more expensive). > > > > I don't like mandrakeclub much. > why? This is ofcourse a bit oftopic. But club gives you an excellent few > of the (paying) user experience of the distro. Mandrake lacks resources > currently. I assume they also lack resources for doing market research of > individual users. Being actively involved in the club, would tell you what > users interest the most (it ofcourse also costs too much time for every > cooker to do it, but it is in contrast to this list, feedback of non-tech > users). > Ok, above only explains 1 possible advantage of club, that ofcourse does > not mean you have to like or dislike it. >
If I were an AOL user I'd say "me too", but I'll expand a bit ;-) I'm a silver member of mandrakeclub and I rarely visit the site and find something useful there. Maybe I'm not the targeted user of mandrake club, since I know most things that come up in the forums and the security updates announces come in via e-mail. Voting for RPM's is nice, but hardly something that should be available all the time. The forums have not nearly enough presence of mandrake employees, so it has degenerated in a shouting competition where newbies cry that things aren't working properly (mostly organisational) and "loyal" members saying the same, but more politely. I believe mandrakeusers.org provides more value than club does and for free too. The software that is members-only is so hard to reach that I don't bother anymore, getting it directly from the source is easier. (with the exception of a few real commercial ones, but staroffice is not part of that anymore, so why bother) So I'm a member, mainly because I don't want mandrake to die! Cheers, Simon
