I find that most mailing lists have web interfaces as an afterthought. Forums are usually have better features for categorizing/organizing new topics and for navigating existing topics.
On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Chris Meller wrote: > Can you illustrate the reasons you find a separately-maintained forum in any > way superior to using the Google groups web interface? To me it is identical: > read previous messages in a given thread and post responses or start a new > thread. > > On Nov 2, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Randy Walker wrote: > >> I prefer forums to a mailing list, usually. The Habari Forums have had sort >> of a circular problem: >> >> 1) People would use them more if they didn't have to set up a separate >> account from trac/wiki. >> >> 2) Nobody uses the forums so why bother set up login integration? >> >> Also, the software powering the forums itself was an issue. I don't recall >> any of the people who were initially for the forums being in favor of >> Vanilla--it just got thrown up (heh?) as a stop-gap measure. This is also >> partly the reason why there is no login integration. >> >> I am +1 for migrating from the current forum solution but -1 for eliminating >> the forums altogether. >> >> If we had integrated login, that'd be one hurdle leapt. >> >> ~Randy >> >> P.S. Also, Google Groups is doing away with Welcome Messages, Pages, and >> Files soon. >> >> -- >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
