Per Jessen wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
I think most of our misposted threads actually originate from the web interface; our NNTP users seem to be a lot more saavy when it comes to selecting a group.
I think it's a lot easier to pick the right group when you've only got 9-10 lines of text, each the name of a forum.
you should have heard the cries and screams when the forum front page (forums.opensuse.org) was redesigned a few months back to make it more like your 'easy'.. the typical forum user wants the jumble of info as it is today.. but still, with all the words needed to funnel folks to the right place, they won't read it and STILL to post in the wrong forum.. it is frustrating for folks who used to get their connected-fix by BBS....i don't know what else to do but ignore their need for bells, winky-blinky and gimicks by using nntp.. the fact is (imHo) the typical new Linux trier/user today is a non-techo, non-reading, impatient _child_ *or* an older and little wiser Redmond Ship Jumper who is certain Linux _should_ work exactly like what s/he is running away from.. i think most of both groups would be happy to accept all the malware they used to have to duck *if* they didn't have to ever read a manual (_and_ could buy, or steal, a half@ssed AV program as worthless and cycle wasting as what they are used to).. my point: if devs/contributors/voters think the universe of potential new users are just like you, and design for yourself, i guess you are gonna miss the largest majority of those out shopping/looking for a new operating system home today.. [note: it is NOT my desire to see openSUSE morph into UbuntuTwo, nor into dis-use....somewhere in between is were we are today, and should remain] ymmv DenverD -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org