I am a new user. I have been lurking on this list for about three months. Now I am unsubscribing. SE is better for my needs; discussion here is mostly over my head. I am grateful that qgis-user exists, and I can re-join when I need to.
The discussion on this thread ("Closure of forum") helped me know how to proceed. I learned about the forum as it was closing, because of this discussion, and so I'm neutral about its closure. I'm just happy to have SE. I agree that there is no easy, clear way for a new user to orientate to the software or to the online resources. But is has been possible, and that is enough for me. Thanks and ciao, - Gray On May 9, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > I think there has been a monthly growth in the use of the SE for some time > now. This makes me wonder how the increase observed below compares to the > longer term average monthly increase. Also, one would need to consider other > means of communication, e..g, the email list might have absorbed part of the > Q&A 'traffic' > > I agree that it is very important (too) how well the SE functions in terms of > questions being answered and whether it functions for both questions asked by > relative beginners and for more advanced users. For me personally, the forum > felt like an easier way of communicating. On the other hand, the email list > offers much if not all of that functionality by providing an easy and > informal way of asking questions or discussing specific topics (like this one > :-)). > > > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM, <jonathanmou...@warwickshire.gov.uk> wrote: > Looking at it from the other angle, there appear to have been ~100 threads > with replies made to them in the "Help" section of the forum in March and > about the same number for February. So the increase in the GIS.Stackexchange > seems to coincide with the former usage of the forums with Nathan's stats. > > For another (probably more important) metric: > On average about 20-30% of the threads in that forum didn't get any > replies at all. How many of the GIS.Stackexchange questions are actually > being answered? There appear to be 88 tagged unanswered QGIS questions: > http://gis.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/qgis > > Jonathan > > > > From: Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com> > To: Nick Hopton <nhop...@gmail.com> > Cc: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > Date: 09/05/2012 10:22 > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Re: Closure of forum, one month on. > Sent by: qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > > > > So the stats are in for March, April, and some of May, using the query > http://data.stackexchange.com/gis/query/68778/how-many-posts-per-month-for-a-tag?TagName=qgis > > The results are: > > 02-2012 = 346 > 03-2012 = 400 > 04-2012 = 556 > 05-2012 = 596 > > Some pretty sharp increases there. > > - Nathan > > On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Nick Hopton <nhop...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the last month of its existence about 130 new topics were created on the > forum. It appears that during the same period about 54 new topics tagged > 'QGIS' were created on Stack Exchange (SE) GIS. It is of course obvious that > there has been an increase in QGIS questions on SE following the closure of > the forum, but I think it is unlikely that all, or possibly even most, of > the people who used to post on the forum have shifted to SE. However, for > obvious reasons there can be no firm evidence to support this proposition; > usage statistics are not enough. > > I wish it well and I'm sure that QGIS at SE will suit many of the more > experienced QGIS users very nicely, but I'm also sure it will also put off > many newcomers and less experienced users who need a friendly place of first > contact where they can ask their questions. But that's enough, I seem to be > a lone voice in this discussion so I won't push things any further. > > Nick. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Closure-of-forum-one-month-on-tp4945755p4948730.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > > > This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may contain > sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and should be > handled accordingly. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to > receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to > anyone else. 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