On 8/28/2011 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Keith Roberts<keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The CentOS Forums are a very very good resource for many people and the
>>> people spending time managing and posting there are doing a very good
>>> job. I'm guessing you were unable to get value from the forums since
>>> your expectations and forums deliverables dont match. That's fine, but
>>> it does not imply that the entire forums are 'useless'.
>>
>> I'd say the forums have ALOT of usefull info, but the main
>> Centos activity is centered on IMHO this list - cannot speak
>> for the other centos lists, as I'm ONLY on this one for now.
>>
>
> The problem with forums is that if you have more than a couple of
> interests you kill the whole day bouncing around in a web browser
> logging into them and figuring out their user interface differences.
> Could the rss feed be made a little more obvious? It might work to
> plug it into google reader or other feed consolidator.
>
Someday, perhaps we'll end up back on an authenticated version of NNTP,
with support for bbcode, images, and the front end reader of your choice...
Maybe a merger of some sort between forums / email discussion threads
and NNTP. There are things that the web forum does well, things that
NNTP does well and things that mailing lists do well.
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