> - 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.
I agree. The primary focus should be these groups. Perhaps I need better wording in my forum. The announcements are more for forum announcements then they are for typo. > > - 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. I had difficulty choosing this piece of "bloatware" myself, but was unable to find another solution that was ready to provide some of the features I desired. Perhaps we can find a board that will have these features and not the drawbacks? > > - 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 You are right. This change will be made. > > - 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. :) Consider it postponed. > > - 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. I agree here as well, the RSS feature is fairly weak currently. I would like to see per forum, per thread feeds here. > > - 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. This is something that I think another system might better manage than phpBB. > > - 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. At present there is a theme installed that a user can select called phpBBlite. Once registered you may select this as a theme. It should be lightweight enough to use in handheld devices. > > - 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. Fortunately, I am the hosting provider for this server. I have been selling web hosting for 3 years now and have had very little downtime. Of course, I am only a reseller, but I have an excellent relationship with the primary provider, Site5. I also know that this company is a major supporter of Typo, and I doubt they would pull the plug on Typo's support forums. Just in case though, they have my credit card to automatically charge me if I begin to use more bandwidth than I need. > 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. Perhaps instead you and I could work together on this project? Its obvious that you care about it as much as I do, and I really do appreciate the suggestions you have already made. I hope you did not get the wrong idea and think I wanted some kind of .org vs .com flame war. My motives are purely to provide access to support for those who are seeking it. The reason I did not withdraw my site plans when you announced yours, was that I have seen people in the past make these kinds of promises, only to fall short. Ultimately, between the 2 of us we own all 3 of the primary TLDs for typoforums, and I think we should make a go of some kind of combined effort. Freedom _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
