On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday, August 28, 2011 06:47:08 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
>> So, if the forums provide a usable rss feed, reading
>> them shouldn't be that bad, even though you have to follow the links
>> to read longer messages and reply.
>
> If the forums have useful RSS feeds, yeah, that would work. I use Kontact; the default feed reader for Kontact is Akregator, which works reasonably well as long as the RSS feed is reasonable (that is, you can get all useful content without having to go to the forum website; if the forum RSS feed requires me to go to the website for essential things like subjects and thread starters, then it's unreasonable).
>
> Otherwise I find web forums require a complete change in workflow; that is, I have to go look at the website and navigate around, with different interfaces, logins, and paradigms. I like e-mail when done right (folderized, threaded, etc). When done wrong it's useless, too, for that matter.
Not so sure about usability - it looks like the rss is all-or-nothing
and I have no interest at all in CentOS4. I'll see how it shows up in
google reader. The QA forum works fine that way to pick up the
occasional announcement, though.
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