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Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?
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Roman Z. |
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Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger? |
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Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:48:23 +0200 |
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:39:04PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Forums are not nearly as easy to use as a mailing list.
>
> 1. You can't easily tell what you've already read.
> 2. There is no easy notification of new items, so you waste a lot
> of time periodically visiting the web site to see if anything is
> new.
> 3. Being web based, the interface is clunkier and slower than a
> local mail client.
>
> Consider your audience. I would think anyone who uses an
> ncurses-based file manager with keyboard commands based on Vim is
> hardly interested in what's "hip"--they're much more interested in
> what's functional, in what works well.
While I have sympathy for your position -- I was defending it two months
ago -- It is apparent that a large portion of ranger users do not want
to use mailing lists. Especially considering the activity of the ranger
thread in the arch linux forum [1]. Sometimes people who don't even use
arch linux register there just to ask a question about ranger.
That thread is a mess in terms of functionality and I want to get rid of
it, without alienating the people who use it as a means for quickly
asking questions through an interface that is easy for them.
I'm really inclined to set up a question/answer web service like OSQA [2].
Much like a bug tracker is far superior for dealing with bugs than a
mailing list, a system like OSQA could be more efficient for dealing
with questions & answers.
> One has to follow both or risk missing some important piece of
> information.
That is a tricky problem for a forum, but it does not seem to apply to a
question/answer web service like OSQA [2]
Roman
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025
[2] http://www.osqa.net/
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, (continued)
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Joshua Landau, 2013/04/21
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Roman Z., 2013/04/21
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Miodrag Milic, 2013/04/22
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Joshua Landau, 2013/04/22
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Roman Z., 2013/04/22
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Joshua Landau, 2013/04/23
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Miodrag Milic, 2013/04/23
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, amelxmx, 2013/04/22
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Emanuel Guével, 2013/04/22
Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?, Gary Johnson, 2013/04/22
- Re: [Ranger-users] Forum for ranger?,
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