> A forum is a single point of failure. If the forum is down I cannot read any message and can't reply.
So? I mean, it's not like it will be down for more than a few hours. FIG is not some sort of a HFT software that needs 100% uptime to function. Also all forum platforms have subscription and digest features, where you can get an email when a new thread/reply pops up. > If the forum goes down while I write a reply I need to press "back" on the browser, hope for the textarea to have kept my message, copy-paste it somewhere, wait for the forum to come up, find the message I replied to previously, reply again and paste the old message. This is again a 0.01% problem. A single feature of voting that could be easily added to the forum would tremendously outweight the availability downside. Or being able to group threads into categories? Imagine if we had a separate category for PSRs and a separate one for off-topic drama, and you could subscribe only to the first one, wouldn't that be awesome? On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Alessandro Pellizzari <a...@amiran.it> wrote: > On 08/08/2016 10:14, Roman Tsjupa wrote: > > Downloading an email is 20-30 KB. Opening a forum page could be 1MB or >>> >> more. >> >> Honestly this is kind of a ridiculous argument. >> > > Fair enough. One point down. > > But I can continue: > > A forum is a single point of failure. If the forum is down I cannot read > any message and can't reply. > > With a ml I have all the messages available offline for reading and > searching. I can write a reply and keep it in the out queue. > > If the forum goes down while I write a reply I need to press "back" on the > browser, hope for the textarea to have kept my message, copy-paste it > somewhere, wait for the forum to come up, find the message I replied to > previously, reply again and paste the old message. > > With a ml it goes automatically in the out queue and gets retried next > time. Automatically. > > Same if I am underground or on a plane while replying. Need to wait to > arrive, connect and reply. By then I am probably busy with something else. > > At any rate, we should really consider the percentage of people who >> browse FIG on a wooden PC with dialup internet before optimizing the UI >> to that setup. >> > > And those that sooner or later find themselves in the scenarios I listed. > I bet at least half of the people in this list found themselves at a > conference with poor connectivity at least once in their life. > > I still don't see any killer feature that makes forums much superior to > mailing lists. And I still see a lot of problems. > > Except maybe the possibility to have animated GIFs in the signature. :P > > As I said, if the forum has a working read-write mailing list gateway > system, we can have the best of both worlds. If it doesn't, it's a huge > step backwards, IMO. > > Bye. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/php-fig/UcF1BXiEuhk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to php-fig@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms > gid/php-fig/9699a3ca-87cd-2f2b-33c9-dabeb43c90a0%40amiran.it. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to php-fig@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CANamvv2FCO27s0Fup8pH4W_8TS2k0my_THkahTRmV3Dx%2BKPh_A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
