[FM Discuss] forums (yeeech)

[adam]

since booki is django i thought we could use one of their forums. That
means no extra account creation...Here is a site that compares them...
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison

any that stand out?


adam



On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 17:50 +0200, Tomi Toivio wrote:
> 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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