[FM Discuss] forums (yeeech)

[John Curwood]

Hi Adam,

After looking through the list, the one I liked best was Askbot  
(http://askbot.org/en/questions/)
The way it was being used, just seemed simpler than some of the  
others and very easy to use for those needing answers to questions.


Cheers,

John



On 15/02/2011, at 5:13 AM, adam wrote:

> 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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