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.
Maybe we could borrow the setup that ruby-forum has (RForum). It is a web forum which transparently bridges with the ruby-talk mailing
<list. Threads on the mailing list show up on the forum, threads on
the forum show up on the mailing list, and you can post from either one.
That sounds great.
One option would be for you to promote the existing forum to drive usage of it higher.
I have a better idea. You (or whoever is in charge of the website) put a link to this forum on the menu at the left. I doubt there is a better way of promoting it.
I'd strongly encourage you to get a real email client.
Awww too bad, I only use Thunderbird. Which other one would you suggest?
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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