This comes up occasionally on another list I belong to. The dynamic of a forum and a mailinglist are very different, mostly because one is push and one is pull.
With a forum, you have to *go* to the site, which means that folk who are peripherally interested will just stop looking unless they have a specific problem bad enough to go to the forum. This means that you will have fewer people on the forum, but they will be more committed. Basically, you will lose readers such as myself. I like to read the comments on this list, but it's fairly low on my hierarchy of stuff to read in the afternoons. So... I scan the emails and see if there's a title that I might find interesting. Otherwise, I delete it without reading. I like to get the emails, but I don't read all the threads. If I had to make the effort to go to a forum, I'd do it rarely. Some forum software provides a hybrid solution -- there's a web-based forum UI, but a user can opt to have the comments pushed on email to them, and can respond by email. Thus, folk like me can still get the "mailinglist experience" while others can do a forum thing. billo On Sat, 2018-10-20 at 18:17 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:42:20 -0700 > stan wrote: > This > > I'm wondering how the people who regularly use fedora-users mailing > > list feel about that. > > There is already a fedoraforum which I don't use at all because > I despise forums because they are nothing like as useful as mailing > lists. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
