[gpodder-devel] On the status of the gPodder project
- From: wvanrooijen at yahoo.com (Wilfred van Rooijen)
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:29:27 -0800 (PST)
In my opinion, an email list is more 'private' and as a result the threshold to
use it is higher. This is good and bad: good as in "you won't have to deal with
FAQs", bad as in "some potential users will be intimidated".
I use both forums and email in courses I teach for (large) classes. Both have
their strengths and weaknesses. The biggest weakness of a forum is that if the
question gets sent to the wrong category, it won't get proper attention. Thus,
good moderators are a must.
For gpodder, I'd say the level of development is such that we should have a
forum.
Cheers,
Wilfred
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [gpodder-devel] On the status of the gPodder project
> To: "Development for gPodder" <gpodder-devel at lists.berlios.de>
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 2:02 PM
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Thomas Perl
> <thp at gpodder.org> wrote:
> > what do you think of adding a forum in addition to
> having the
> > development mailing list. Do you think a forum would
> help users that
> > are not familiar with mailing lists? I'm happy to
> read your opinion!
>
> I think some people are forum people and some people are
> email people.
>
> Unfortunately in my experience the people that have answers
> are email people
> and the people that have questions are forums people.
> That's why I ask on the
> mailing list first :-)
>
> If there was some way to use a forum software that
> autoposted both ways? The
> problem of course is you tend to split the people that can
> answer between the
> two.
>
> I do think forums tend to be preferred by some, and since
> gpodder is obviously
> trying to appeal to more than just kernel hackers, a forum
> may well be welcomed
> by some.
>
> I dunno if that helped any - but I expressed an opinion :-)
>
> Brian
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