RE: We need a forum!

[Vat Raghavan <machinshin2002@...>]

Hello all,

long time lurker here :) 
I must say i agree with Jonathan.  
A forum would be redundant. We have this mailing list, a wiki for
'long term' knowledge and if you need help immediately there is the
irc channel  (irc://irc.freenode.net/#lua) (where i often idle :P).

Again i think Jonathan has the right of it, maybe if the web archive
had a better search system, and maybe a mode to 'nest' messages (beyond
the 'thread view' it has now, i.e. something similar to webboards like
slashdot,  or kuro5hin) that may allay some of the original poster's concerns.


--vat


--- korpse-lua@kaydash.za.net wrote:
> Jason Murdick wrote:
> > A wiki is really not what Michael was suggesting, if I may be 
> > so bold as to
> > interpret his initial post.
> > 
> > He is suggesting a real forum, with threads that are organized, user
> > accounts, and a real search utility. Something such as phpBB 
> > if I am not
> > mistaken.
> > 
> > I would have to agree with him. I'm not a big fan of mailing lists,
> > preferring discussion boards instead.
> 
> I find mailing lists convenient in that they are essentially passive. I
> don't have to routinely check the forum, hitting F5 every 5 minutes for new
> posts. It's all "automatic" with a mailing list. Besides, your mail client
> is a lot more featureful than a BB could be (I'm not an avid BB user, so I
> am open to correction) for instance sorting and filtering.
> 
> As for Michael's comment about all this knowledge being "lost", the mailing
> lists are mirrored on the web.
> 
> Perhaps the answer is to make the web archives more functional? That's my
> two cents.
> 
> Regards
> --
> Jonathan Jacobs
> Developer
> 
> 
> 



		
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