[REBOL] Re: Why not forget about AltMe and Rebolist and use RebolTalk instead???
From: andreas:bolka:gmx at: 5-Jan-2005 21:24
Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 8:56:00 PM, Arie wrote:
> Since RebolTalk is up and running, why not choose it as THE means of
> communication?
the general problem i have with a forum, is that keeping up with what
goes on in a forum is an awfully tedius task. my email client supports
me well in keeping up with loads of mailing lists whereas i only
manage to keep up with not even a handful of web-based forums.
a forum without RSS support is - to me, personally - an utterly
useless forum. even with rss, the ability to quickly scan new forum
content is hindered by typical forum constraints and usage patterns.
search facilities are limited, compared to what i can to with my local
mbox. generally, external access to the data is rather limited.
when considering the exposure to the "public web", a forum certainly
wins over AltMe, but so does a mail list with a public archive (like
the excellent ml archive at rebol.net).
entry barriers to a web-based forum are typically much higher compared
to a mailing list. on a ml i only have to find out how to subscribe,
then i have standard email. there is no such standard with all the
various forum software out there (although it most likely always boils
down to a textarea :)
and heck, i even say that while i'm co-author of a web-based
application (Vanilla, a wiki) that is often mistaken to be a "forum"
of some kind ;) well, public wikis have their own characteristics, but
i'm not an enemy of the html-based web or textareas all together ;)
finally, a suggestion: get the problems with the mailing list fixed or
even better: completely migrate the mailing list to some professional
hoster somewhere (e.g. at an ISP of reboltech's choice).
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Best regards,
Andreas
