On 23 February 2011 17:04, Alexandre Prokoudine < alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/23/11, Jan Schrewe wrote: > > > I believe the user experience in a forum is usually bad. There is the > > problem of a bad interface that a user normally can't change. > > Are you referring to some specific forum engines? Some specific forum > themes? > Maybe it's just me, but I have yet to stumble upon an engine and/or theme that works. Most of them feel rather clumsy to me and you need way more clicks to get anywhere then with a decent mail program. The other thing is that search generally sucks in form software. Again, this might be subjective. > > > The other thing about forums is that you have to actively do something to > > follow what's going on (going to a site, hitting reload every couple > mnutes > > to see if anything new happened). > > You absolutely don't have to do that. Every decent forum CMS has > thread subscriptions so that you are pinged in the mailbox if > something happens. Some even go as far as providing per-section and > per-thread RSS feeds. > Yes, but with RSS you get a timeline of messages and not threads. If you get updates via E-Mail, you end up with a mailing list, in which posting is more complicated. Or is it possible to hit just reply and the mail gets posted by the system to the forum? Per-section and per-thread notifications are fine, but they again involve subscribing and searching actively. The other thing is that this is just not the standard way to use a form, so using the forum via mail feels mostly like an afterthought. Jan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110223/1ab9cb96/attachment.htm>
