On 10/01/12 13:59, John Spackman wrote: >> On 10/01/12 13:28, John Spackman wrote: >>> I wouldn't want to check a website daily either my preference is >>> definitely for email or at a pinch RSS, and fragmented or duplicate >>> postings would be a step backwards IMHO. >> >> I'm not exactly sure why a forum would be more prone to duplicates. > > If the ML existed parallel to the forum I could see the same question > being asked in more than one place - anyone who was following both would > see a duplicate. > >> If anything, a mailing list is quite prone to people asking the same >> question over and over, because: >> - a newcomer doesn't have the ML archive to search in > > My private ML archive is pretty big now, but if I have a question I > usually google for it first rather than search in Outlook - nabble is > perfectly visible to google, it may be ugly but it works really well.
Most of the time if I google something qx-related, it'll come up with irrelevant stuff from qx 0.7/0.8 from seven years ago. Might be just my google-fu, but it makes it really hard to find anything. Now, a MUA or a forum's built-in search might offer things like sorting by date or giving higher weight to newer post in the relevance listing, whatever; than what google seems to be doing lately. >> - on-line ML archive interfaces suck enough that nobody ever bothers >> searching in them > > I agree that the ML UI isn't great, but not bothering to search is a user > problem not a technology problem. Could be. I just know I try to avoid Sympa MLs' archives as much as possible, just to give an example :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
