[SWLUG] website upgrade

[Pete Prior]

Without wanting to add fuel to the fire:

If its a case of adding a new module with a couple of clicks - as I imagine
it will be with drupal - why not have a forum and see if people use it. 
The people wanting the forum will actively moderate it I imagine.  If they
don't, disable it (with another couple of clicks) in due course.

Like a lot of things to do with swlug - if you can't make it or don't like
a feature - don't attend or don't use it - don't try to force your schedule
/ views on everyone.


Pete

On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:49:51 +0100 (BST), Steve Hill <steve at nexusuk.org>
wrote:
> 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.
> 
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