Re: The future of the Lua Forums

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:21:48PM -0700, Coda Highland wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > I am not sure writing new forum software is a good idea.
> 
> While I agree with you in the sense that this is a very large wheel to
> be reinventing, I unfortunately can't recommend any other existing
> forum software because they all have major problems of some sense or
> another. (If I *had* to recommend one, it'd probably be vBulletin, but
> that's not free.)

I've never understood the attraction of web fora; the only advantage I
can see over mailing lists is that they have a web interface; and that
can be easily overcome by using webmail and having a searchable archive.

B.