On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:55:59 -0700, microUgly wrote:
The POV-Ray community is perhaps not a fair comparison. Yes, it's huge, but I suspect it's been around for over ten years, a time when newsgroups was as popular as websites. Most people who use the internet today would not even know what a newsgroup is. And unless they worked in a large organisation they may never have been exposed to a mailing list. But if they've used the internet then you can be pretty sure they've accessed a webpage and after not to long they will have been exposed to forums.
To suggest Inkscape doesn't need a forum is closing the door in the face of many potential users.
You're missing my point (at least): Don't create a *separate* forum, create one that works as a gateway to the existing stuff. vBulletin, for example, provides a "forum" experience to those who want that type of thing, and can gate things to an NNTP backend for those who want that.
It doesn't have to be an either-or discussion.
Jim