The noise level is insane *if* you subscribe to every single post in every
single topic. I'm talking about one notification email for each new topic
*only* in the sub-forum(s) you care about (e.g. Nuke Python, Nuke Users, etc),
not automatic subscription to all posts. Put the thread title in the email
title, and you can decide whether you want to click the link and actually read
the topic (which you won't have to sign in to do if you don't want to leave
yourself signed in permanently).
Obviously this idea wouldn't give you complete parity with a mailing list, and
it's all contingent on A) the forum software supporting this level of
subscription control, and B) The Foundry ensuring the notification emails are
informative enough, but I figured I'd throw it out there as an idea.
-Nathan
From: Randy Little
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 9:44 AM
To: Nuke user discussion
Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] The forums are moving
Nathan the amount of noise from a forum emailed to you is INSANE. Think about
how many people on the mail list complain about anything off topic being noise
now. If I was getting forum emails it would just go off the charts. Digest
Oye, read through a zillion topics again.
Email. goes in thread One email subject and all email go into that thread and
I never see another email accept the original. Forum would be a new non
threaded email for every forum post. At least thats has been my experience with
other forums.
Randy S. Little
http://reel.rslittle.com
http://imdb.com/name/nm2325729/
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Nathan Rusch <nathan_ru...@hotmail.com> wrote:
I would love to keep the mailing lists alive as well, although I'm not
vehemently against forums.
However, I think it's worth noting that the interchange between the lists and
the old forums is (I believe) nonexistent at this point. There are a ton of
topics on the forums that most people here aren't aware of, and none of what is
posted here ends up on the forums. In other words, there's effectively a small,
detached community of people on the list side, and a (probably much larger)
separate community on the forums who either don't know the lists exist, or
don't care enough to figure out how to use them. Granted, this keeps the
signal-to-noise ratio of the lists at a very nice level...
For those of you planning to jump ship, while I'm not on the new forums yet
myself, I think it should be possible to set up your forum account so you
receive an email whenever a new topic is posted, or a daily topic digest if you
preferred. This would make it behave somewhat more like a mailing list, except
you would need to click a link instead of "reply" to respond. Food for thought,
maybe.
-Nathan
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