On 2006-09-20, Niklas Broberg <niklas.broberg@gmail.com> wrote:
i definitely think that to rise up Haskell popularity we need now to create web forum.
I disagree with this. I don't like web forums, I don't use web forums if I can avoid it. They're way more work than mailing lists.
And I disagree with you. I don't like mailing lists, and I don't use them if I can avoid it. They're way more work than web forums. For the end user at least, if perhaps not for the administrator. ;-)
And I disagree with you. Web forums are usenet reinvented poorly. It's impossible to keep track of what's new, threading is either poor or nonexistent. Mailing lists with searchable archives work well. gmane provides a nice usenet interface to mailing lists.
It's all there, all the time.
Yes, that's part of the problem.
It is also easy to create sub-groups/forums for specific projects,
This is the one semi-useful thing. Of course, what you end up with is another not-so-useful forum. -- Aaron Denney -><-