[SWLUG] website upgrade

[Steve Hill]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Paul Connell wrote:

> I think we would benefit from a good quality forum -

Just... no...  Yuck.

> mailing lists fail at threading (well, most do)

No, your mail client fails at threading - works just fine in Alpine and 
many others.

Whereas forums have many problems - I've not yet seen any that fall into 
the category of "good quality" - most of them _do_ suck at threading, 
require you to poll them for new messages (no, I'm not going to log into 
20 individual forums several times a day to see if anyone has sent me new 
messages when they could just be landing in my mail client instead), they 
provide no way for people to change to a different UI that works better 
for them and pretty much anything web based is horrendously slow when 
you're used to using local applications.

  - Steve
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