I would have had the same thing to say as you do, had it not been for a Google search yesterday. I stumbled upon the Habari forums, and shortly after, on to the discussion on the IRC channel on "To Forum Or Not To Forum" (ignore the grammar... that captures the essence of it anyway). I think we need to get the Habari website to inform users (and devs) that we do have a forum.
As a user, if I had a problem, I wouldn't join a mailing list, but Google Groups is much more than just a mailing list - if we've got an open group, users can post a one-time question to the group without getting all of the posts to a mailbox. The disadvantage, is that there doesn't seem to be a way to get email notifications of a reply to that thread. Based on that, I'd say: -1... we keep the forums. My thoughts are the same as Randy's on this one. I think we ought to have the forums as another way to reach out to users, but I don't have anything to say about the software powering the forum except that it ought to support email notifications (I haven't used the existing forum, so I can't tell if this is a feature in Vanilla). PS: Google Groups doesn't have a good group home page, but the threaded view matches that of GMail and has that familiar look. If there's one thing that would make me vote against the web interface, it would be the group home page. On Nov 3, 2:08 am, Iñaki Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, if this helps, just to mention that this is the first time I hear > about the forums.. > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Chris Meller <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I know this has always been a heated topic, but I glanced at the forums ( > >http://habariproject.org/forumsin case you didn't know) and was dismayed > > by the number of questions with simple answers that were never acknowledged > > simply because no one regularly looks at the forums. > > > I don't think the right answer is to try and force someone to regularly > > check them or become a forums czar, so I'd like to once again propose > > shutting them down and directing people to the habari-dev Google groups > > page, which really offers exactly the same functionality as the forums (a > > web-based interface) and has a much wider audience. -- 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
