On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 15:47, Nick Bowler
On 10:37 Mon 26 Jul , Job Vranish wrote:
I agree. A web forum would be more friendly to newcomers, easier to browse, and better organized, than the mailing list.
I don't understand this sentiment at all. How are web forums easier to browse than list archives? Especially given that there are usually multiple archives for each ML, with a variety of ways to use them (e.g., I tend to use gmane with my newsreader for this purpose).
Irrespective of what is easier to use, what really counts is where the *targets* of your post hang out. Personally I prefer a mailing list, and I would only ever use a forum if I had a better chance of getting good and informative answers there. Another option is to import the entire haskell-cafe archive into gmail :-)
Some people will still prefer the mailing list of course, but I think there will be enough demand to justify a forum :)
Wine has a web forum that is directly connected to their mailing lists: each post on the forum is sent to the corresponding list and vice versa. The web forum interface doesn't support proper threading, but it otherwise seems to work OK. Perhaps something like that would be useful?
This would be a good compromise. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe