On 12/7/05, Freedom Dumlao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LMAO! > > I honestly have no animosity towards Jason (although I have to admit > being offended when he implied that I had set up a forum in response > to his.) I think there is room for 2 forums at this point in time, > and perhaps at some point the projects could merge. >
Actually I didn't mean to imply that at all and I must have been in error as I recall all typoforums TLD's being available when I registered typoforums.org, if I had have had my glasses on and saw that typoforums.com was registered already then that would have raised a red flag. I have no interest in competing and was not trying to set it up as a competition between two forums, in fact I was trying to avoid such a situation by posting to the list before commencing and was surprised to see the announcement of typoforums.com. I disagree that there is room for two forums and if need be I will just point the DNS in the direction of typoforums.com as I am just too tired to fight over such petty things these days. However if Typoforums.com was to be used then I would like to see changes there such as: - For it to cater just to end user support and third party developers, it was determined on list that the developers weren't interested in using forums and would stick to the mailing list so why have boards for it? Also Typo announcements belong on the main Typo website. - The use of phpBB also doesn't sit well with me, it just doesn't seem fitting for a modern open source project to use phpBB. - Remove the Solutions! board and keep solved problems in their respective boards as if someone is having problems installing Typo then they are going to look in Installation Issues and not Solutions - Give the community time to move in and for the dust to settle before throwing posting competitions (I actually think such competitions are tacky anyway). Like why do you need a competition to attract visitors anyway? It is a support forum, users will come to you. :) - Better RSS support, at the moment there is no alternate application/rss+xml link in your headers so Safari & Firefox don't pick it up and the RSS is only for the most recent posts across the whole forum with no option to subscribe to individual threads or boards. - Search Engine Friendly URL's, it can be debated whether they are effective or not but they have to exist for some reason and it is easy to support them. - Better support for handheld devices, I do a lot of checking and replying to of posts on the go on my Treo and at the moment on Typoforums.com that experience is frustrating at best. - Some sort of guarantee that once the site becomes popular then hosting isn't going to be a concern, I would hate it for the forums to be offline due to a web host shutting the site down due to excessive resource usage. These are all oddly enough things that we thought of when implementing typoforums.org but like I said I'm not interested in fighting in a my site is better than yours type fight and would rather just take a step back if need be. I came to Typo after being frustrated with the politics within the development & support of Wordpress so I want this to be a new & fresh experience. Regards, -- Jason Bainbridge An Aussie geek stuck in Texas - http://jasonbainbridge.com Advertisement free blogs for those affected by emergency situations - http://911blogs.com _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
