[FM Discuss] forums (yeeech)

[helen varley jamieson]

simple is good :)

theoretically forums *should* work, but in my experience it usually 
requires one or two people to do most of the posting & others 
occasionally come in & out.

what i don't like about forums is that you have to remember to go back & 
look at them; being able to get an email alert when someone has 
responded to a forum you're following is important, otherwise people 
forget. also a good search function is essential. mostly when i go to 
forums i'm looking for something specific & i want to be able to find it 
quickly.

not sure if this helps, adam ... i'm still email-focussed :)

h : )

On 14/02/11 4:20 PM, tycho garen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new, so take this with a grain of salt, but...
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 04:05:24PM +0100, adam hyde wrote:
>> so...i was wondering if anyone has good ideas on forums to use - or some
>> kind of feedback mechanism for 'users'? We need to install one on
>> booki.cc since its getting quite a bit of usage but there is no
>> community as such yet like there is with fm...
> I'm not a big web forums kind of guy (see below), but my general
> tendencies in this area are:
>
> - [Vanilla Forums](http://vanillaforums.org/): it's simple, it looks
>    good out of the box, and it doesn't over complicate things in the
>    way that some more popular software immediately invites you to
>    create lots of sub-forums which divide attention.
>
> - [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info) which has a page-inlining/blogging
>    feature set that you can use to power forum sites
>    (e.g. http://ikiwiki.info/forum/). It's super low-fi/low key, but in
>    that: really awesome.
>
>> i would like to make it web based but i really dont like web forums...is
>> there a better way to do it? I had thought microblogging might work as i
>> saw some like this - they look better but i dont think they are really
>> that useful
> I think many people don't like forums, and though I think it's
> probably true that we (all?) are bad model users, I might
> recommend/suggest that some sort of web-based interface to something
> that's email under the hood (e.g. nabble/gname,) might be more
> ideal..
>
> Cheers,
> sam
>
>
>
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