On 19/01/2012 at 10:58, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > A proper official forum such as most modern projects use (Firefox, Fedora, > Ubuntu, Mint and so on and on) would neatly avoid all sorts of recurring > problems. But of course we have to stick with some ancient system that > makes the project look like something pre-Win95. Even Arch has forums > ffs.
I think that Tom has a point here. Mailing lists were around for really long time and they are pretty convenient for people who are used to them. But most of computer/Internet users these days are not. They like simple web interface of bulletin boards software (also called "forums"). They can't configure their e-mail software (even most web interfaces provide needed features) to move all traffic from specific source (mailing list) into separate folder. I think that they are just overwhelmed by whole new experience with mailing list. And this causes frustration... I know there is that Nabble gateway, but it seems that there may be two problems with it (I don't know if any is valid, since I don't use it): 1. registered people still get mails from mailing list, although they prefer to check for new messages themselves on webpage. 2. It is too hidden. On page <http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing- lists/> classic mailing lists are exposed, while Nabble gateway is only mentioned. Perhaps this page should focus on Nabble gateway, while classic mailing lists addresses should be only mentioned (maybe moved to another page?). People who would like to use mailing lists would find info they need, while inexperienced users would not be bothered by whole mailing lists stuff, about which they neither know nor care. -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
