Rick, You got me on that last paragraph where you mention that the forums are for user-to-user support, and we don't have a lot many users right now.
It got me thinking about changing my vote, but I'd think the real problem is we don't have enough users yet and we're more of a development community so we ought to work toward getting users to try Habari, and a forum is a great way to let users know that there's a place they can go to have their problems resolved. On Nov 3, 6:16 am, rick c <[email protected]> wrote: > I find it interesting that this thread has generated the most interest > in the shortest period of time of anything that's been posted lately. > I also find it interesting that it was started on -dev, rather than on > the forums or in -users. > > That said, I don't think the problem is the lack of login integration. > Those of us who have even a smattering of interest in the forums have > created logins there. If someone doesn't create a login because it's > separate, that's sad. > > Rather, from what I remember, the intent was for the forums to be for > user to user help. If that isn't happening, whether because enough > informed users aren't using them or for some other reason, I'd say > there's no need for them at this time. I'd rather than have them at > all than have them neglected. > > Rick > > On Nov 2, 10:04 pm, Chris Meller <[email protected]> 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 > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev > > > smime.p7s > > 5KViewDownload -- 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
