On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:09 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
Personally I quite like the idea of using a CMS for haskell.org, but there needs to be enough effort available to make it fly and keep it flying, and I just don't see that yet.
That is very true, so let's stop taxing our brain with it ;)
I really hate forums. I don't think I'd keep up with forums if we had them. It takes 10 times longer to read a forum than a newsgroup, and since our mailing lists are gated to newsgroups on www.gmane.org, there doesn't seem to be a need for forums too.
My (positive) experience with the forums is that e.g. I can quickly find solution to the problem by searching Gentoo forums, while, otoh, I unsubscribed long ago from Gentoo mailing lists (having too much traffic), so I'm not keeping up with the forums either, but they provide a nice archives for a faq & answers for common problems (e.g. sticky posts etc.)
You can even read & post using a web browser (though it's a bit primitive, I grant you). Windows users have no trouble with newsgroups, because you get a newsreader installed by default with Windows XP (Outlook Express). We should provide instructions for accessing the mailing lists using a newsreader somewhere.
That's a good idea (although, personally, i switched off my newsgroups completely). Sincerely, Gour