Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

[Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:29:37PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> >>I think rather that the existing community forums do well enough
> >>already. It was debated to create web forums, and we decided against
> >>fragmenting the existing webforum community.
> 
> who is "we"? I undertood exactly the contrary at the end of the 
> discussion. (Sonja writing) - do notice I dislike forum myself, so I'm 
> not involved in lobying for them...

Perhaps we're just recalling two different meetings ;) hehe.

I also dislike forums -- I find the interfaces atrocious, and can't
fathom that users can even tolerate them, let alone prefer them to a
good fat email client.

But there's no accounting for taste :)

> It may not be enough said that gmane forums are now opensuse 
> compatible (they where not some time ago). This is a very easy and 
> good way to access mailing lists.

Though I think gmane caters to a very different audience than a phpBB
instance -- so it perhaps doesn't address the original poster's point,
though it -is- very good news. :)