[FM Discuss] forums (yeeech)

[Tomi Toivio]

Actually forums are sometimes better for discussion than mailing lists.

In my opinion they usually need to have very active moderators, since
otherwise the trolling might get out of hand. It is just a law of the
internet.

2011/2/14 helen varley jamieson <helen at creative-catalyst.com>

>  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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