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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2018-01-15 13:53:20 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2018-01-15 13:53:20 -0400 |
commit | a6f1880f8e53889da6bc4d74fd0ec4623fdd4950 (patch) | |
tree | 213e15203be84bb8bf1d80fa68815bb5742ca501 | |
parent | 699ca8a1cc8047821f21c164428e63096995d435 (diff) |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_1_63c52c977689a5da34fec65391c25fd6._comment b/doc/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_1_63c52c977689a5da34fec65391c25fd6._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0231987f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Improving_the_git-annex_forum/comment_1_63c52c977689a5da34fec65391c25fd6._comment @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2018-01-15T17:33:12Z" + content=""" +Thanks, Florian for raising this topic. + +Granting the missing features you list (and perhaps adding that people seem +to sometimes find it annoying to log in successfully here), I wonder how +much those features are limiting use of this forum, if at all. I suppose +one way to find out would be to move to another forum and see if traffic +increases (or SNR or engagement improves). + +For myself, having the forum integrated in the git-annex repo is quite +helpful to me, since I automatically track it along with all the other +changes to the website, and am sure to see every single post here, +and it meets my offline/low bandwidth needs. Also I sometimes promote +forum posts to bug reports or make a commit following up to a forum +post with a requested feature or fix. + +I suspect that the git-annex community is kind of split between people who +are more comfortable in web forums, and people who are used to mailing +lists, who are currently being left entirely out in the cold (and probably +using the irc channel more). It could be that mailman3 with its mix of +forum and mailing list could better unify the two groups. Or perhaps +there's no point in trying to do that, and a simple mailing list would be a +bigger win than changing the forum? + +I'm ok with however git-annex users choose to get together and +talk about it, including ways that I can't/won't use myself (including +non-free stuff like Slack..). To that end, if people want to get a +git-annex community going somewhere, be it another forum, or reddit, or +whatever, I'm fine with the website directing users to it. +"""]] |