hi, On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Peter Flodin wrote:
Gentoo: http://forums.gentoo.org/ Posts: 3,005,617 Registered Users: 105,423 Users online: 235
Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org Posts: 680,568 Registered users: 68,264 Users online: 706
Fedora: http://forums.fedoraforums.org Posts: 621,755 Registered Users: 60,167 Users Online: 4402
I will just state again, that people who talk about gateways etc between mailing lists and the web forum, haven't got full comprehension of what a successful web forum is about.
Yes.
There is no reason that an openSUSE web forum will not rival any of the above in terms of usage.
Rivality is not the point; success ("helpfulness") is it. You can't measure it in numbers, only in "forum atmosphere".
And does anybody who thinks that the mailing lists on these other distros are non-functioning because they have successful web forums? Of course not.
Try reading www.linux-club.de for 3 days; you will see solid FAQs instantly, and strong moderator action if something starts running against the line. My feeling is: there are the best "educators" homed for forum users. Knowledge is giving advises. That's what a forum should be, and linux-club.de is. But the language is german (only). A gain from the sight of the forum users ("easy", just the way they want to go). So best would be we had one official forum per language. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)