I asked somewhere else in this thread, but can *anyone* explain to me why Google Groups is so supposedly inferior to a forum? Threaded discussions with a great search feature. You browse existing discussions and post new ones. How is that different?
I'm not trying to argue, I'm trying to understand. Just because they call it a "group" instead of a "forum" doesn't mean it's any different... At least I see very little different. On Nov 3, 2010, at 5:39 AM, Andy C wrote: > I find the the Google Groups interface awful. Simply awful. The only > decent thing in its favour is the search capability. > > I find the forums much more friendly and welcoming. I would rather > forums replaced -users to be honest. > > However, the problem isn't forums or mailing lists of Web based > interfaces. > > The Habari forums are hardly used, it's almost a self fulfilling > recursive prophecy - the people best placed to energise the forums > don't like them so they don't use them and that's entirely their > choice. > > The forums engender much ore of a sense of community IMHO. Profiles, > avatars etc. That is valuable. > > I don't mind the Vanilla software - it had some glitches but Randy > seemed to address most of those by configuring or adding plugins. > > On Nov 3, 2:04 am, 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
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