Howdy, I don't agree with the not mature evaluation, but forums are too much trouble to participate in for me. On an email list, I see a message and respond if I have a comment. Web Forums these days generally use cookies and javascript. I don't allow either on my main computers for security reasons. So, I have to go find another machine, enable javascript and cookies for the site, login after I look up another password and then read and post. I have to be careful to never visit another web site during this time and then logout and disable javascript and delete the cookies. It is a lot more work, so I generally ignore them and spend that time on other projects. I do realize that they do have some advantages, such as the way they tend to categorize information. To those that enjoy them, good luck, Ralph
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:06 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:55:20PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > > I still can't be bothered. I simply don't participate in projects whose > > primary means of communication is a webforum. To me, such projects are > > not sufficiently mature. I find it highly unusual that Gimps actually > > switched from a mailing list to a forum. > > It's how life is these days. I have exactly the same problem (keeping > up-to-date on a webforum just takes too much time and energy for me -- I'm > sure webforum people will feel the same about a mailing list), but no amount > of whining is going to change things, so it's better to go on and let others > keep the spirit of the project running. > > /* Steinar */ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
