[ardour-users] Ardour needs a forum

[Nathan Long]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:20:00 +0200
Björn Elenfors <bjoele at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/9/05, Cathbard <maillist at roomity.com> wrote:
> > 
> > My post seems to have stirred up quite a hornets nest.
> 
> E-mail vs forums is a matter of taste, not objective reasoning. 

I disagree.

> Personally i like the lists as they get to me "automatically" in a
> way that forums never will.

Forums can send you automatic emails too.

> Most mails are just browsed before I
> archive them but it gives me a hint of what's going on. If this was a
> forum I'd just check it when I had a specific question and thus would
> miss many of the hints that come this way. Forums in my opinion
> require users to be more active and that would mean that lazy people
> like me would be lost. 

There is a button on many forums that will give you a rundown of the
latest threads that you have not looked at yet.  That way you can
easily keep up to date.  Think of it as a "lazy person's" button.

Or just get everything automatically emailed to you anyway.

Why doesn't someone just start a forum somewhere, and if it takes off,
it takes off.  The people who want to join it will make it as good as
they can, the people who want the list can still use it.

Nathan.