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And Google Groups has 738 subscribers :D There for a second I was feeling rather poorly about the wine-forum site. So, I suppose the forums I put up are about as destructive as Goggle Groups. Actually 13 Members less destructive. -Tom On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/21 Tom Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [if] the forums at http://www.wine-forum.org/index.php were not > > > popular enough to make this cut, may I ask how many users = popular? > > Well, let's see: > Ubuntuforums: Threads: 685,027, Posts: 4,364,352, Members: 509,031 > Linuxforums: Threads: 111,640, Posts: 550,654, Members: 149,826 > Linuxforen.de: Themen: 238.148, Beiträge: 1.602.009, Benutzer: 70.611 > comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine: Threads: 22,816; no idea how many > posts or members. > wine-forum.org: Threads: 174, Posts: 529, Members: 751 > > I think you have to grow by about two orders of magnitude > to complete. And even then, you'd be > fragmenting the user space. I rather doubt the > average Ubuntu user, comfortable in his or her Ubuntu > forum, will venture afield when there's a wine area right > there in the ubuntu forum site. Likewise, users comfortable > with the wine-users mailing list are unlikely to switch. etc. > By adding a new forum, you're decreasing the quality of > support in the existing ones. > - Dan >