Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

2022-05-03 Thread Jim Hall
On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 12:45 PM Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel wrote: > > Precedently suggested web site should have at the beginning: >[..] This is all very helpful, thanks. I'll probably borrow some of your text suggestions when I make updates to the website. (I don't have time to make major

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Jim Hall
> Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel [03/05/2022 20.48]: [..] > > That's why I wrote: "We also communicate through a web-based discussion > > program called Forum, but it is less used: (Link to forums)." I > > thought that maybe we had a web-based discussion program like phpBB > > (https://www.phpbb.c

Re: [Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Harald Arnesen
Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel [03/05/2022 20.48]: At least, I would prefer we use a web-based forum, because that way, threads about not concluded subjects remains (supposing no one erase them), while with mailing lists these subjects just tend to get forgotten. Also messages can be edited b

[Freedos-devel] A web-based forum to replace the mailing-lists?

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
I was confused by the suggested word "forums" in a previous email. That's why I wrote: "We also communicate through a web-based discussion program called Forum, but it is less used: (Link to forums)." I thought that maybe we had a web-based discussion program like phpBB (https://www.phpbb.com/

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Precedently suggested web site should have at the beginning: "I know all this" links to the following: News (link to news) Let's talk ( https://www.freedos.org/forums/ ) Wiki ( http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) Bugs ( https://www.freedos.org/bugs/ ) Gitlab (link t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Replace: A mailing list is a group of people to which you can subscribe to (or unsubscribe), and every message one send to it is redistributed by email to every subscribed people. (Link to mailing lists). By: Mailing lists are handle by a program on our server that when it received an email t

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
I just done a better version... as it is small given the full new version here: FreeDOS is a free (both having the liberty to, and with no fees) to use, redistribute and modify reimplementation of DOS (mainly Microsoft DOS) that was often coming with computers in the 80s. By default, it does n

Re: [Freedos-devel] Update on website usability test

2022-05-03 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Well, my first reaction was that a website and a wiki play very similar roles, and that maybe we should use just one of it. I guess I would prefer the Wiki (but you must make it relatively easy to get an account on it)... but website are not too bad if they are on GitHub or GitLab. Then they