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

[Andrew Conkling]

On 12/8/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we remove mailing lists or if there is no communication between the
> two and style changes are discussed only in the forums, I will not be
> warned of changes. Which will mean that my edits will be voted down,
> and I will stop participating because I won't understand the rules
> anymore or I won't be willing to comply to rules about which I did not
> discuss.
>
> I know I won't take the time to go check the forums. I did not do so
> since they opened (although I did subscribe), and I almost never went
> on any of the numerous other forums which I know of. To me forums are
> good when you have a precise answer to seek. You browse the forum to
> check if the answer is already there and if not, you post your
> question and you monitor the answers.
>
> But in MB, most of the discussions I participate in were not started
> by me. The problem is that there are too many things changing all the
> time and I need to be notified of what is going on. And the only way
> to do this is to get a mail in my mail box.
>
> If I were the only one working this way, MB would lose only one user,
> no big deal. But I believe there are a few others that think like me.
> Are there enough active MB users that MB can afford losing some of
> them for the sake of some technological faith?

I'm totally with you. I was thinking that RSS feeds would be a good
way, and it turns out one is
available--http://forums.musicbrainz.org/extern.php?action=new&type=RSS--only
not advertised, see
http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=141. I'm not proposing
that this is a complete solution, but it's a step in the right
direction. I just subscribed to it and had my frist psot!!1 on the
forums so we'll see how this pans out. I'm eager to find a workable
and flexible solution.