On Thu, 2018-06-14 at 20:36 +0100, Thomas wrote: > On 2018-06-14 17:47, Roy Keene wrote: > > If it's any conideration, if it's not a mailing list or something > > else > > pushed to me, I'll never see it. A fossil users' forum will never > > get > > checked (pulled) by me since I am just too lazy to remember to do > > so on > > any regular frequency. There may be others like me who are busy > > but can > > occasionally check email.
Agreed 100%. This is the lowest noise option. > > Mailing lists in general are disappearing and forums are coming in > more > and more. Yes, the world is going to hell in our lifetime. Dare I suggest we bin all the mailing list ideas and go back to Usenet? > There surely are loads of reasons but I'd like to only point > out that once the amount of posts increases no one wants to see all > those in their inbox. It's a huge pain in the ass to have to sign up for anything just to ask a question or report a bug. Huge. But as offensive and unmanageable as that is, having to have browser tabs open for dozens of web forums, having to come up with and manage passwords for each of those, and have to actively monitor each one to see if anything of interest happens to appear, is much worse. A decent email client can run on a terminal, over ssh or telnet, etc. and can handle all sorts of filtering and searching. Most mailing lists assign you a password and you don't even have to keep track of it; many email you password reminders on a regular basis and you don't even need it until you want to unsubscribe. Web forums are right out. /jl _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
