I think that comparing the new forum to other forum software, such as SMF or phpBB - well, there's really no comparison. Those are fully featured forum wares which have been developed over many, many years, and are quite sophisticated. They provide every feature which anyone wanting to run a forum might ever want or need. (with emphasis on "might ever")
But do we really need every feature? If we look the history of the old forum and at only the features which members actually use, and depend on day to day, the "new" forum has all those features. (as much as the 3 of us have been able to remember). I don't think our community needs all of them - at least we never have needed them yet.
I don't see any reason not to give the new forum a try. If after some time (5 days or 5 years), we realize there's a need for some new feature, and for some reason it can't be added, all those sophisticated wares will still be available for us. We can always switch over to one of them.
Well anyway, that's my perspective.
brynn
-----Original Message----- From: doctormo@...155... Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 10:17 AM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] new forum, what happened? make a plan?
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 13:56 +0100, Maren Hachmann wrote:
I also don't think the of one on the website as a serious alternative to a proper forum in its current state.
Your loaded criticism is just wrong. The forum is serious, a fine alternative and a proper forum. It's current state is good, but not perfect.
I have checked it's design and functionality with multiple normal people. None have had any issues. Remaining issues are so many levels deep that I'm confident we'll be able to prioritise these paper-cuts with more users using the site.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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