On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:37:30 -0500 Jeremy White <jwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, if we look at January, the last month without the forum: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-January/thread.html > we had 226 posts. > > If we look at March, the first full month with the forum: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/2008-March/thread.html > we had 2136 posts. > > Even if you say that 1,000 of those posts were meta posts with complaints from > us Mailman lovers, that's still at least a 5 fold increase in traffic. > > I found that compelling, so I thought I would share. > > I've long had a strong bias for mailing lists, but I think this > is an important lesson for me to accept. If we want to engage and > embrace all visitors to Wine - not just the ones that think as I do - > we need to make sure the forums are strong and work well. > > Sigh. First Wikis, now forums. What's next? Am I going to have to twitter > and text message with my thumbs? </grumpy old man> > <grin> > > Cheers, > > Jeremy yeah, nowadays most people below 30 don't use email anymore, its sad. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci@xxxxxxxxxx> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20080403/121ad541/attachment.pgp
