Having to constantly check to see whether anyone's posted anything new on the web forum means that most busy people (particularly developers) won't read it.
Most forum-systems have an email-notification function.
Right, but then you have to check your email and the forum. Double inefficiency. :-) I do like that forums make it easy to browse past issues, but they still seem to take way more time than e-mail.
The only forums I have seen that work well(*), is where there is ahuge community of users. If there aren't many users, quite a long time can go between posts and responses.
*The Gentoo and Ubuntu forums, to be specific
I'd strongly encourage you to get a real email client.
Some web-based e-mail programs work well now days. Anything with threading will do, I think. I use Gmail with a filter for my mailing lists, and it works better than anything I've used, except Evolution.
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