Thanks Chen. So to sum up technical problems, the only one which I believe is reasoned is the speed of our sf.net forum compared to others.
I think that slow performance alone isn't a reason to chose other forums, unless there is someone who's willing to maintain a similar one with similar features but better performance. We have no such offer ATM. Aside from technical aspects (and that's what I really meant as a base for discussion), the main point is active community with answers (as Chen rightly said), which means volunteer participants. Our forum has ~50 registered users, hmgforum has about ~100. The message count is much higher, but the size of the community isn't so big. Just thoughts. For sure if nobody is willing to pass the knowledge he got for free here, we will have a hard time building any sort of active Harbour support community, and that's something ALL users should be aware of. I see many ppl. coming by and asking for free docs (prefereably in his own language), free support, free this and free that, but what nobody seems to realize is that free stuff comes only from contributions. It's not there by magic. In a healthy community which wants to stay afloat on the longer run, it's actually required that everyone who TAKES also GIVES something. Everyone should decide what is that he can give to the community, being it 5 bucks, being it a little background research, support answers, patches, writing docs or code, small or large it doesn't really matter, but until we have ~10 ppl participating actively and a couple committing all the code, chances are very high that we're seeking impossible goal when trying to build f.e. an active support forum. Simple reason is that ~10 ppl cannot do all these tasks. Please think about this, and try to find a way you can help, after all, you got an excellent, stable, robust, feature-rich and industrial level product *for free*, which can help to even create profit (cash), save time (which is also money). In such case it's not devil to ask to return some of these benefits to the product itself to keep it alive and well on the long run. I'm sure it's everyone's interest to not let the project just vanish. Brgds, Viktor On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Chen Kedem <n...@synel.co.il> wrote: > Viktor, > > > Please post ideas how to make our forum more active > > The only way to make them active if users could find answers to their need > there. > If user need to wait a month or so to get an answer, well, he/she will go > elsewhere to find it > (and will probably end here in the dev list). We need someone with > knowledge that is willing > to take the time and actively monitor the forum, and provide first aid > help, or forward the question > to this list if its something more complicated. I'm doing something like > that for the SF bug tracker, > but the forum is just too slow for me (and my old browser at work doesn't > do well with the forum). > > > BTW I believe attachments should be possible to enable > > in our forum. Can someone check? Vailton, Chen? > > Attachments SHOULD work on the Harbour SF phpBB (they were enabled since > day one of the forum). > > Current limits are: > > 1) Each file is limited to 256KB. > 2) Up to 3 attachments per post. > 3) No attachments allowed in private messages. > 4) The following extensions are allowed: > > Images: gif, jpeg, jpg, png. > Archives: 7z, ace, bz2, gtar, gz, rar, tar, tgz, zip. > Plain text: c, ch, cpp, csv, h, hpp, ini, log, prg, txt, xml > > I can change the above settings if needed. > > Massimo: What file did you try to attach? Did you get any error message? > > Chen. > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > Harbour@harbour-project.org > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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