On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Dave Neary wrote:
What I mean is, let's say that the people who post to maemo-community but never (or rarely) to talk.maemo.org don't go over there. What then?
You will lose their input. But the people addicted to forums will tell you that does not matter as these people are not 'engaged' anyway, otherwise they would make the effort to visit the forum.
I think people insisting on moving mailing lists to forums do not respect my time. I'm trying to keep up-to-date on 20+ subjects of interrest. Using mailing lists this takes 20-40 minutes a day on average. Trying to do the same using forums takes at least 3 times that amount as it means having to visit 20 diffent websites to check for new messages and read them, involving a lot of page load delays.
A forum is a nice solution if you're only following a few subjects or if you have a lot of spare time, IMHO.
I will not be visiting the t.m.o thread but will miss this list if it is yet another list that becomes a victim of the everything should be a forum mob.
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