Re: browser interface to forums please?

On 04/05/2017 09:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>
> This has been tried a number of times. I'ts been a couple of years since
> I last saw one, but multiple people have set up forums, either mirrored
> or not. They have all died because of either lack of usage or because
> the person who did it disappeared.

Mostly, because they did not work well and the folks on this end of the
process had to do more work to get the information necessary to answer
the question. I know I eventually stopped responding to the questions
from those sources because it was difficult to follow the information
flow. Namely you had to crawl back up to the forum to get information
and then the email thread had mix of information that made it through on
its own and some subset of information that dedicated people pulled in
from the forum. That mix depended on dedication level and time available.

>
> Not saying it can't be tried again, but in the previous attempts it
> certainly hasn't been "many users". It could be that whomever set them
> up did a bad job of course, I can't judge that as I didn't personally
> use them more than take a look every now and then.
>
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