[mb-users] A ML... and a forum!?

[Kerensky97]

I was about to make a post but mll already said most all I was going to.  If
avatars and signatures are what's souring you on forums don't worry, that
can be turned off globally or in your personal settings.  We can even
restrict access to certain forums to specific users although I don't see the
use in clamping down access.  And personally I think alot of the animosity
that develops in a fierce ML debate could be limited by the more open, and
relaxed nature of the forums.

And setting up a forum name is alot easier than subscribing to mailing
lists.  I don't think anybody would voluntarily do it if the Mailing list
had the disclaimer, "When you sign up you will recieve one email for every
single comment or post somebody happens to make whether you're interested or
not."
At least with the fourms I can choose what I want to read, subscribe to
topics I think are important, and it even highlights the threads that have
new comments in them.
I'm sick of the ML spam, I get easily 300-500 emails a week depending on how
active things are.  Thanks to nabble I just delete them now because I hate
having to filter through all that to find the discussion I'm interested in. 
But nabble is still full of bug reports and other issues I don't really know
or worry about; and if someobdy responds to an email wrong it fractures the
thread into two pieces.

-Kerensky97


mll wrote:
> 
> azertus a écrit :
>> There's a lot to reply to, so I will just write one mail.
>> 
>> I can agree that the scope of [mb-users] is perfect for the forum
>> format. However, I cannot see myself participating in a style
>> discussion on a forum, what with the colourful avatars, bulky
>> signatures, "me too"-comments, etc. 
> 
> I just saw in the user options you can disable them all.
> 
>> 
>> The way I saw these forums was an experiment as to which kind of
>> discussions would pop up there. Having several detailed categories and
>> no unified login defeated its purpose. Only motivated list-users
>> created accounts there, so in the end the same kind of discussions
>> were had, but only by *a certain subset* of the list-users.
> 
> Honestly, suscribing on the forums *once* is *way* easier than 
> subscribing to each & every mailing-list. I for one did succeed in 
> subscribing to the automods ML, but my mails were always rejected for 
> some reason. Even if the unified login isn't here yet, it's really a 
> short pain.
> 
>> 
>> Thomas Tholén said:
>>> Why people wanted forums was so they wouldn't have to check mailing 
>>> lists. Now they still do.
>> 
>> To this purpose a topic for each relevant surviving list (all but
>> users IMO) could be added to the forum, as Andrew Conkling said:
>> 
>>> Similarly, the Ubuntu forums have a good setup (though I don't know
>>> how they implemented it); they have the mailing list as a topic in the
>>> forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=6. This would seem
>>> to satisfy both sides.
> 
> I didn't get Andrew's idea exactly, but if it's close to mine in another 
> post, the option "Include post in subscription e-mails." is a starter 
> towards the right direction.
> 
> MLL
> 

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