Re: browser interface to forums please?

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Most likely things like that yes -- which indicates that it really wasn't
enough people who preferred that format to actually reach critical mass.

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