Oh we know its happening, once the marketing dept gets a hold of an idea its pretty much a done deal.
Any volunteers for starting the google group? On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Emma Handley <emma.hand...@thefoundry.co.uk> wrote: > You can subscribe to the forums and you will get a notification when a new > topic is created. You can also subscribe to a topic and then choose how > often you get an email sent too. > > We want you to enjoy all aspects of interacting with The Foundry > Community, so we will definitely listen to all your feedback and what works > best for you. > > There's no turd polishing, cooking or any of the other phrases used in > relation to turds. This is happening on Monday though and we wanted to let > you know beforehand. We'll have to wait and see what happens after it's > live, but we'd very much like you to hop over there next week and see what > it's all about. > > Cheers, > Em > > > > On 3 February 2015 at 17:53, Nathan Rusch <nathan_ru...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 <rlit...@rslittle.com> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2015 9:44 AM >> *To:* Nuke user discussion <nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk> >> *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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing list >> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> > > > > -- > -- > Emma Handley > Social Media & Community Executive > The Foundry > Skype: emma_foundry > Tel: +44 20 7479 4350 <http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/about-us/contact-us/> > <http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/about-us/contact-us/>- Fax: +44 (0)20 7930 > 8906 > Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk > Email: *emma.hand...@thefoundry.co.uk <emma.hand...@thefoundry.co.uk>* > > The Foundry Visionmongers Ltd. > Registered in England and Wales No: 4642027 > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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